A Brief "How To" for Quoting and Answering Here

[marineland]

4 minutes ago, bluebell said:

The easiest way is to click the quote button under each person’s post. It’ll populate both of f them into your post. 

Thanks. I'll try that. Sometimes I find it difficult if one person's comment is on page 2 and I
am replying to someone on page 6.  When I initiate the reply to page 6 and go back to the
person on page 2 for example and click on that one's quote button, it seems to loose my
initial reply to the person on page 6. 

I might be doing something wrong.

[bluebell]

45 minutes ago, marineland said:

Thanks. I'll try that. Sometimes I find it difficult if one person's comment is on page 2 and I
am replying to someone on page 6.  When I initiate the reply to page 6 and go back to the
person on page 2 for example and click on that one's quote button, it seems to loose my
initial reply to the person on page 6. 

I might be doing something wrong.

I've struggled with that myself.  I'm not sure if there is any way to get it not to do that.  Hopefully someone else will know.

[Calm]

If you press the plus sign by the word quote, it will keep at least one post saved for you.

You can add multiple posts.  So plus sign page 6 quote and before you reply, head back and plus sign the earlier one too and then when you are ready, hit the box and all the quotes will be included….but it looks like in a new post, as I just hit the box with this reply open.  I thought it would be added to this one.  Instead it opened a new one for them.

Edited July 19, 2023 by Calm

[Calm]

51 minutes ago, marineland said:

Thanks. I'll try that. Sometimes I find it difficult if one person's comment is on page 2 and I
am replying to someone on page 6.  When I initiate the reply to page 6 and go back to the
person on page 2 for example and click on that one's quote button, it seems to loose my
initial reply to the person on page 6. 

I might be doing something wrong.

 

5 minutes ago, bluebell said:

I've struggled with that myself.  I'm not sure if there is any way to get it not to do that.  Hopefully someone else will know.

 

[Calm]

6 minutes ago, bluebell said:

I've struggled with that myself.  I'm not sure if there is any way to get it not to do that.  Hopefully someone else will know.

 

On 3/29/2022 at 10:02 AM, Tacenda said:

Wow, had no clue, thanks Stargazer! Or maybe some might not want everyone to know this helpful youtube when they have to get responses that cut up their original posts, lol. 

And it looks like it will put first saved first, second saved second, etc.

[marineland]

4 hours ago, Calm said:

If you press the plus sign by the word quote, it will keep at least one post saved for you.

You can add multiple posts.  So plus sign page 6 quote and before you reply, head back and plus sign the earlier one too and then when you are ready, hit the box and all the quotes will be included….but it looks like in a new post, as I just hit the box with this reply open.  I thought it would be added to this one.  Instead it opened a new one for them.

Great.  That works.  Including @bluebell too.

[GoCeltics]

Thank you. That helps.

Is is possible to reply to a user within Thread 1 while emphasizing a statement [bold or
italics] made by another user in Thread 2?

[bluebell]

4 minutes ago, GoCeltics said:

Thank you. That helps.

Is is possible to reply to a user within Thread 1 while emphasizing a statement [bold or
italics] made by another user in Thread 2?

Not that I’ve ever found. The best I could come up with is to open the discussion board on two tabs and copy the quote from one into a post with the quote from the other.

If you want the person who said the quote, you copied to know they are being quoted, then you can do @ with their poster name and the board will notify them that somebody’s talking about them. 

[Tacenda]

Sorry if I use this topic to ask a question, sorry to the one who started if it's not okay. 

I recently have been released from being on "limited" status. I am excited to be able to react to posts. I see the upvote and heart for likes and don't quite understand what would give someone points, not sure how to say it. Does the upvote do that or the like or heart? And what constitutes each of them? 

[Calm]

I have always assumed all the positive ones add and the negative take away.  Shall we test it?  I will give you a heart and let’s see if your count goes up.

You currently have 3761 rep points

added:  gave you a heart and it went up to 3762

A trophy moved it up to 3763.

I am at …17, so someone quickly downvote me…I don’t feel comfortable doing it to anyone else.

Edited March 28, 2024 by Calm

[bluebell]

3 hours ago, Tacenda said:

Sorry if I use this topic to ask a question, sorry to the one who started if it's not okay. 

I recently have been released from being on "limited" status. I am excited to be able to react to posts. I see the upvote and heart for likes and don't quite understand what would give someone points, not sure how to say it. Does the upvote do that or the like or heart? And what constitutes each of them? 

I'm lazy and just give everyone a heart for everything unless I think it's funny and then i'll do the laugh.  I think all positive "likes" give reputation points.

[Calm]

@bluebell, since you are here, downvote this post please. I want to see if those count as well.

Edited March 28, 2024 by Calm

[Calm]

8 minutes ago, Calm said:

@bluebell, since you are here, downvote this post please. I want to see if those count as well.

Does not appear to have made a difference.

oops, forgot to refresh, lol

Yep, lost a point

Edited March 28, 2024 by Calm

[Calm]

A smilie ups the rep points as well…so all but a downvote increase rep points, down vote subtracts.

[Calm]

There are 12 posters with negative rep points.  Grug winning by leaps and bounds (the next ‘highest’ is -25) at -60.

He did hit a lot of the wrong sort of buttons….at least 156 times (since there are many who don’t like to express disapproval with a downvote, so can’t be counted).

Edited March 28, 2024 by Calm

[Tacenda]

1 hour ago, Calm said:

There are 12 posters with negative rep points.  Grug winning by leaps and bounds (the next ‘highest’ is -25) at -60.

He did hit a lot of the wrong sort of buttons….at least 156 times (since there are many who don’t like to express disapproval with a downvote, so can’t be counted).

Thanks for the help Calm! I was making sure in case, I do alot of the heart ones. ETA: How many likes can we give each day?

Edited March 28, 2024 by Tacenda

[Calm]

1 minute ago, Tacenda said:

Thanks for the help Calm! I was making sure in case, I do a lot of the heart ones. 

I am stuck in bed today, so a little mindless diversion is appreciated.

[Tacenda]

Just now, Calm said:

I am stuck in bed today, so a little mindless diversion is appreciated.

I added to my post, how many times are allowed to like or dislike each day?

[bluebell]

Just now, Tacenda said:

I added to my post, how many times are allowed to like or dislike each day?

I think it’s like 50 in a 24 hour period? I frequently run out and it’s very annoying.

[Calm]

I think contributors are 50.  It used to be less for others, but I don’t know now.

[Stargazer]

On 3/28/2024 at 9:41 PM, Calm said:

I think contributors are 50.  It used to be less for others, but I don’t know now.

Long time ago you mentioned in some thread that you had run out of votes for the day at 50, and so I tried then to see if I could manage it. I did manage it, but it was hard work. Yes, 50 is (or was at that time) the limit.

 

[brownbear]

Thanks for posting this.

[Dario_M]

Interesting. 

[Tony uk]

I'm new to all this internet forum/board. Still getting used to technology, so this section is definitely going to be of use to me.

[Dario_M]

This is such a life saver. O wait..i've already reacted in here. 

Edited January 30, 2025 by Dario_M