Can't quote anymore?

[Grathok-terokkar (Grathok)]

Sometimes, though, it just happens. I’ve had it hit three posts in a row before, but it probably hasn’t happened to me at all since early last week. And it always lets me just put the quote back in anyway, so it’s pointless. I brought this up on the forums once before, and more or less got the response of “learn not to quote the entire post, you plebeian” from random people who thought it showed a lack of tact to use the entire quote instead of, I guess, the 90+ percent of whatever post I was quoting that was relevant.

That’s kinda odd even for an intermittent issue. If you’ve gotten hit by it 3 times in a row let alone other instances it happened wherein other people have never even seen it, it smacks of either the process you’re using to quote or the browser/device you’re using to post triggering the error. Disregard the trolls as such responses aren’t relevant or productive. Unfortunately I’ve tried a variety of things to get the error to trigger so the only thing I can suggest is to try to assess what the commonality is when the issue happens. Does it happen only on your phone for you or does it happen across multiple devices? Is there something you’re doing when the error pops up that you don’t always do? Is it only on posts with a specific thing in it (i.e. links or images or something)? Things like that. Beyond assessing what that difference is we have no way to replicate the problem aside from trial and error and that isn’t working, heh.

Hell, it could easily be an extension or addon somehow auto formatting the quote in a nigh imperceptible manner that the forums don’t like that’s causing it to be kicked out. Particularly so if you’re using an up to date version of a popular browser on a PC (i.e. I use Chrome and always keep it up to date whenever an update is pushed).

I disregarded the trolls at the time, and actually the use of the word “plebeian” is entirely mine anyway. Much appreciated, though.

Assessing the issue, though, is interesting. I’ve had it happen on two different computer terminals, never on mobile, haven’t noticed anything I was doing differently at the time (click “reply,” click the quote button, type and finish) when it happened to trigger or happened not to. I’ve gotten the error on both Chrome, which I use on one terminal, and Firefox, which I use on both mobile and another desktop. I keep them both up-to-date and use minimal, if any, browser addons that aren’t “make my every home page a picture of a unicorn.”

So… yeah. Random forum auto-edit is random. I can’t even establish a commonality of occurrence within the same variables when it does occur because if I immediately edit the post and put the full quote back in, it invariably does that. Literally, I post something with a full quote, it takes it out and gives me the error. I edit the post immediately and put it back in, nothing happens and it posts like I originally intended it to. There’s no rhyme or reason.

Maybe every time one of our posts gets edited for no apparent reason, someone gets a mount out of an Island Expedition. Better than bells and angel wings, by a long shot.

[Kirela-arygos (Kirela)]

"Essentially, if you’re directly replying to someones post then you don’t need to quote their post. It’s a little redundant since the forums now show what post you’re replying to in the UI. If you quote a post in a direct reply, the system will edit the post and remove the quote as a form of tidying up.

It should only be doing this if the quote is in a direct reply and completely intact. If you are quoting someone who wrote something very long and you break up their quote to respond to specific elements of their post, it will leave the split up quotes in place."

From a blue post. Might explain it.

[Carissaria-aggramar]

From a blue post. Might explain it.

Ah ok. I just noticed it today so was concerned. Thanks!