Guidance on how to quote content into another forum thread

[ChrisC]

Some new folks come in here and don't understand how to quote something in an updates thread and post it into an associated discussion thread.  And we do want them to quote, because otherwise we don't know what they are talking about (e.g. can't go directly back to the image or update that they are referencing).  I've always thought that people just need better handholding at first, so now I'm typing it up

If you want to comment on something in an updates thread, you can take that comment to the discussion thread via these steps:
1.  Find the post (in the updates thread) that you want to discuss.
2.  Click "quote" for that post; the link is probably in upper right corner of that post.
3.  This will paste some HTML* into the reply box at the bottom.  DO NOT ADD TO THAT YET.  (*actually it's pseudo HTML called BB code)
4.  COPY that HTML to your clipboard.
5.  LEAVE that updates thread (abandoning that comment), go find the associated discussion thread, and paste that HTML from your clipboard into the comment box.
6.  Optional but appreciated: edit down the quote to just the relevant part, especially if it's a long quote.  Retain the "(quote)" markup code.
8.  Type your comment / question and click PREVIEW.
9.  Check to make sure you didn't mess up your quoting, and submit!

If you are referring to a specific photo in that original comment, and there are multiple photos there, then either tell us the filename, or download and reattach it to your new comment.  Otherwise we won't know which photo you're referring to.

If you comment in the wrong place, the mods will get reports and probably eventually move it to the associated discussion thread, but it adds work for them, annoys the rest of us in the meantime, and especially annoys people that might have the update thread "on notification" (they get an email for every post). So help us all out by doing the quote-copy-paste steps above.  Thank you.

[kevindbaker2863]

Thank You - That explanation was very very helpful!!

[ChrisC]

Edited for general use.