# Quoting another poster

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623 "2013-07-29T22:12:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![knfenimore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc348/32.png) [@knfenimore](https://community.cartalk.com/u/knfenimore)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/1 "2013-07-29T22:12:21Z")

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How do you quote a previous poster so it links to them?

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**Author:** ![CapriRacer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/capriracer/32/22_2.png) [@CapriRacer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/CapriRacer)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/2 "2013-07-30T16:37:12Z")

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This web site doesn’t have that feature. The best you can do is copy and paste, then do something to indicate that you’ve done that and who said it - like: _TireGuy says: “blah, blah, blah!”_

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/3 "2013-07-30T17:30:37Z")

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And you can stick an @ at the front of their name to notify them. But that person then has to get to their ‘notifications’ section to clear the red flag. Used to be, if they read your post it cleared automatically.

What’s up with that, @cdaquila ?

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**Author:** ![lion9car](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@lion9car](https://community.cartalk.com/u/lion9car)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/4 "2013-07-30T19:13:23Z")

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_knfenimore wrote:  
How do you quote a previous poster so it links to them?_

This is what I do when necessary, although it’s a manual process and it doesn’t actually link.

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**Author:** ![cdaquila](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/32/18089_2.png) [@cdaquila](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cdaquila)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/5 "2013-07-31T19:31:45Z")

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@texases, @knfenimore, it’s true. One of the facets of the dearly departed old system that is most missed is the ability to quote a previous poster. We asked about it during the migration, but it is unfortunately not an option. The suggestion to use the @ as a Bat-signal of sorts is a good one.

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-poster/80623/6 "2013-07-31T19:33:48Z")

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@cdaquila - so I guess the ability to clear a notification by reading the thread is gone, too?