# Site has removed \ tags **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 11, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239 "2025-10-11T03:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/1 "2025-10-11T03:04:16Z")
3 times the site removed the \ tag from my post. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/2 "2025-10-11T04:22:02Z")
My YouTube link, in the thread about Drum brakes, is still up. What did you quote? ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/3 "2025-10-11T15:51:35Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > 3 times the site removed the \ **Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/4 "2025-10-11T16:04:52Z") > [@davesmopar](#): > > Don’t know what that is… That’s what you did to quote @RandomTroll and I did to quote you. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/5 "2025-10-11T16:08:53Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > > [@davesmopar](#): > > > > Don’t know what that is… > > That’s what you did to quote @RandomTroll and I did to quote you. OK thanks 😊 Seems to be working for others and myself… 🤷‍♂️ When it comes to computer lingo stuff all I know is thingamajiggers and whatchamacallits 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/6 "2025-10-12T00:51:23Z")
I quoted an article from the ‘NY Times’ 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. It’s not a big deal. Clearly there’s a bug. Perhaps the people who run the site would like to know. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 11:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/7 "2025-10-12T11:51:36Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > I entered the tag by hand, which is different than what the site does when one quotes a previous poster. Can you provide the raw text that you manually entered? I’d be curious to see the exact tags you used. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/8 "2025-10-12T21:45:00Z")
except that I used \< and \> Part of the problem may be that a URI followed the tag. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/9 "2025-10-12T22:04:37Z")
Exactly like my unblocked YouTube link. Must have been a ‘syntax’ error in your case. I loathe those! Got tons of ‘em 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 parentheses….. )!! ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/10 "2025-10-13T00:12:55Z")
> [@RandomTroll](#): > > except that I used \< and \> Part of the problem may be that a URI followed the tag. I’m still puzzled on what wasn’t working. Here are examples of blockquotes, using both open and close square and angle brackets. These two examples seem to be working: ```auto > This is a link to [Google](https://www.google.com). > This is a link to (https://github.com). ``` Their output is: > This is a link to [Google](https://www.google.com). > This is a link to ([https://github.com](https://github.com)). ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/11 "2025-10-13T02:59:16Z")
I demarcated a long quote from the text of an article from the ‘New York Times’ with the html tags \ the quoted text \ 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 don’t have a subscription and can’t 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. I’ve been using blockquote for years, and write a lot of html: I don’t think I hallucinated. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/12 "2025-10-13T03:04:43Z")
I just edited the post. As soon as I did, the closing blockquote tag disappeared. ---
**Author:** ![RandomTroll](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/randomtroll/32/12184_2.png) [@RandomTroll](https://community.cartalk.com/u/RandomTroll)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/13 "2025-10-13T03:31:55Z")
Let’s try a test. This is blockquoted. This isn’t. If the tags don’t start the line they disappear when opened for edit. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/14 "2025-10-13T06:23:57Z")
I tapped on “this is blockquoted”. Nothing happened. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/15 "2025-10-13T13:13:22Z")
I wish you would just screen shot the ■■■■ thing so I would have an idea WTH you are talking about… 🙃 ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/16 "2025-10-13T13:25:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![davesmopar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/davesmopar/32/41750_2.png) [@davesmopar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/davesmopar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/17 "2025-10-13T14:08:00Z")
You do realize if your look to the right while making a post that you can see how it will post, if a ■■■■■■ word is redacted or not… Using JoeMario’s post as an example… > This is a link to [Google](https://www.google.com). > This is a link to ([https://github.com](https://github.com)) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/9/5/95bf6fd75c754e2a28f2f87953ddca76c56f6a1e.png) and again… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/d/8/d89986af9e7cbf14dc3fdb5254cf28750435470d.png) So if it doesn’t look correctly to the right, it ain’t gonna look correct in the post… ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/18 "2025-10-13T20:58:04Z")
So it seems in RandomTroll’s case it’s simply a syntax error. They admitted themself that they typed it in manually, all the more prone to leaving out a ‘\<‘ or a ‘/’ or whatever. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/19 "2025-10-13T21:16:49Z")
Deleted, I assume all this is about quoting outside material, not prior commentator’s. ---
**Author:** ![ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/christhetirewhisperer/32/34798_2.png) [@ChrisTheTireWhisperer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ChrisTheTireWhisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239/20 "2025-10-13T21:28:46Z")
Yes. For example, here’s a link to a Sixty Minutes episode about CarTalk’s founding fathers: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/d/c/dcad44cb963ccf9195b036ec36b26b74115ac527.jpeg "Car Talk: Behind the Scenes with Tom and Ray Magliozzi (1995)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ12-5jEw8I) I copied and pasted the link, and knowing my syntactical incompetence, would never even _attempt_ to type it all manually! [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/site-has-removed-blockquote-tags/204239.md?page=2)