# Quoting another reply in a thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [January 15, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667 "2019-01-15T00:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/1 "2019-01-15T00:34:02Z")
For the last few days, whenever I quote someone’s post, the system removes the quotation. Feature or bug? ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/2 "2019-01-15T03:28:53Z")
> [@NYBo](#): > > For the last few days, You mean when you do this? (I’m trying it out.) ---
**Author:** ![Mustangman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mustangman/32/44130_2.png) [@Mustangman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mustangman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/3 "2019-01-15T14:06:31Z")
> [@NYBo](#): > > Feature or bug? Seems to work for me. Press your right mouse button and sweep across the text you want to quote. You should see a grey dialog box that says “Quote” Click on that box and it will launch the reply box with the quoted text inside. Try that. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/4 "2019-01-15T14:23:10Z")
> [@NYBo](#): > > For the last few days, whenever I quote someone’s post, the system removes the quotation. Feature or bug? Let’s see if this sticks, quoting my entire post. ---
**Author:** ![thegreendrag0n](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thegreendrag0n/32/9265_2.png) [@thegreendrag0n](https://community.cartalk.com/u/thegreendrag0n)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/5 "2019-01-15T14:25:19Z")
for me it was the case a couple of day ago: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/0/0869f9fd8bb7de322568d6106db02d75d30ac3d3.png) once you read the message, it tells “quote was automatically removed by the system” quote was indeed removed ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/6 "2019-01-15T14:26:50Z")
Yes, that’s it exactly. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/7 "2019-01-15T14:33:43Z")
I can still see the quote (as of right now, at least), but I got a notificationn of this: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/4/4e534ec07c72b53bbf7ca00f3afbc0746170e1cf.png) ---
**Author:** ![thegreendrag0n](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thegreendrag0n/32/9265_2.png) [@thegreendrag0n](https://community.cartalk.com/u/thegreendrag0n)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/8 "2019-01-15T14:35:47Z")
as software guy, I might imagine some developer is actively at work to correct it on a live system 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/9 "2019-01-15T14:36:19Z")
I think the gremlins at Discourse decided that people could not quote an entire post for some unknown reason. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/10 "2019-01-15T14:39:40Z")
Okay, trying again with the post immediately above. Maybe that’s the key. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/11 "2019-01-15T14:40:41Z")
Yep, that’s it. You can’t quote the entire post immediately above your reply. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/12 "2019-01-15T14:41:36Z")
> [@NYBo](#): > > Okay, trying again with the post immediately above. Maybe that’s the key. This isn’t immediately above this reply. Let’s see if the quote sticks. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/13 "2019-01-15T14:45:36Z")
> [@cdaquila](#): > > > [@NYBo](#): > > > > For the last few days, > > You mean when you do this? (I’m trying it out.) It apparently works if the entire quote isn’t from the immediately preceding post or, as in your case, you don’t quote the entire post immediately preceding. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/14 "2019-01-15T15:15:46Z")
> [@NYBo](#): > > ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/40/295_2.png) cdaquila: > > > ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/40/3003_2.png) NYBo: > > > > > For the last few days, > > > > You mean when you do this? (I’m trying it out.) > > It apparently works if the entire quote isn’t from the immediately preceding post or, as in your case, you don’t quote the entire post immediately preceding. here we go down the rabbit hole…quoting your whole post. ---
**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/15 "2019-01-15T15:36:31Z")
> [@cdaquila](#): > > > [@NYBo](#): > > > > ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cdaquila/40/295_2.png) cdaquila: > > > > > ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/40/3003_2.png) NYBo: > > > > > > > For the last few days, > > > > > > You mean when you do this? (I’m trying it out.) > > > > It apparently works if the entire quote isn’t from the immediately preceding post or, as in your case, you don’t quote the entire post immediately preceding. > > here we go down the rabbit hole…quoting your whole post. I like pizza… (it worked ok for me now, but I noticed this the other day. I thought I just screwed something up in trying to quote, lol) ---
**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/16 "2019-02-14T14:02:11Z")
> [@eddo](#): > > (it worked ok for me now, but I noticed this the other day. I thought I just screwed something up in trying to quote, lol) testing, been having same problem Instead of showing the quoted part, it shows I edited the post, seems to work fine here ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/17 "2019-02-14T14:11:59Z")
thanks. I’m still trying to figure out if this is a feature or a bug. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s-Me](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/it_s-me/32/12660_2.png) [@It\_s-Me](https://community.cartalk.com/u/It_s-Me)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/18 "2019-02-14T14:15:32Z")
my last 2 posts before these 2 in this thread have notifications that the system edited my posts. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/19 "2019-02-14T14:16:56Z")
Yes. What I mean is I’m trying to find out if the Discourse developers added this on purpose, for some reason. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667/20 "2019-02-20T01:42:26Z")
As an update, I looked in the forum settings. I believe I found a way to turn off the suppression of the full-post quote. You can try it out and see if it works. [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/quoting-another-reply-in-a-thread/132667.md?page=2)