3 times the site removed the </blockquote> tag from my post.
My YouTube link, in the thread about Drum brakes, is still up.
What did you quote?
Donāt know what that isā¦
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Thatās what you did to quote @RandomTroll and I did to quote you.
OK thanks 
Seems to be working for others and myselfā¦ 
When it comes to computer lingo stuff all I know is thingamajiggers and whatchamacallits 
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I quoted an article from the āNY Timesā in my post about the bankruptcy of First Brands. I entered the tag by hand, which is different than what the site does when one quotes a previous poster. Itās not a big deal. Clearly thereās a bug. Perhaps the people who run the site would like to know.
Can you provide the raw text that you manually entered?
Iād be curious to see the exact tags you used.
except that I used < and > Part of the problem may be that a URI followed the tag.
Exactly like my unblocked YouTube link.
Must have been a āsyntaxā error in your case. I loathe those!
Got tons of āem in college when I took cobol as a business elective thirty years ago.
I could never remember to CLOSE any string of code involving < > or ( ). Still do it today (with parenthesesā¦..
)!!
Iām still puzzled on what wasnāt working.
Here are examples of blockquotes, using both open and close square and angle brackets.
These two examples seem to be working:
> This is a link to [Google](https://www.google.com).
> This is a link to <GitHub homepage>(https://github.com).
Their output is:
This is a link to Google.
This is a link to (https://github.com).
I demarcated a long quote from the text of an article from the āNew York Timesā with the html tags <blockquote> the quoted text </blockquote> then I added a sentence after the quote. When I saved the message the whole text was blockquoted and the closing tag had disappeared. In addition the site turned the URI into a display of the part of the article the site returns. I had added instructions to submit the URI to archive.is if you need to read it and donāt have a subscription and canāt read it. (I browse with lynx, which returned the whole article despite my subscriptionlessness.) So I submitted the link to archive.is to get the link and added it, at the same time restoring the closing blockquote tag. It disappeared again. So I added it again. Then I edited it again for some reason and it disappeared again. Iāve been using blockquote for years, and write a lot of html: I donāt think I hallucinated.
I just edited the post. As soon as I did, the closing blockquote tag disappeared.
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Letās try a test. This is blockquoted.
This isnāt.
If the tags donāt start the line they disappear when opened for edit.
I tapped on āthis is blockquotedā. Nothing happened.
I wish you would just screen shot the ā ā ā ā thing so I would have an idea WTH you are talking aboutā¦ 
Maybe Random should just stop linking stuff that is all over the web anyway to the subscription-based New York Times . There is a discussion of this parts company on here that does not need someone to join.
You do realize if your look to the right while making a post that you can see how it will post, if a ā ā ā ā ā ā word is redacted or notā¦
Using JoeMarioās post as an exampleā¦
This is a link to Google.
This is a link to (https://github.com)
and againā¦
So if it doesnāt look correctly to the right, it aināt gonna look correct in the postā¦
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So it seems in RandomTrollās case itās simply a syntax error. They admitted themself that they typed it in manually, all the more prone to leaving out a ā<ā or a ā/ā or whatever.
Deleted, I assume all this is about quoting outside material, not prior commentatorās.
Yes.
For example, hereās a link to a Sixty Minutes episode about CarTalkās founding fathers:
I copied and pasted the link, and knowing my syntactical incompetence, would never even attempt to type it all manually!