Quote Format

**The Real Bingo** · September 29th, 2005, 08:34 PM

Not a very big deal, and if it can't be changed, that's fine...

But I think it would be convenient if the quotes included the time and/or day the person who is being quoted posted. Many times, in larger threads, I try to look back to see in what context the person said what. But that's tough to do, especially in that 20,000 page thread we have. Showing the time and/or date would make things easier in that sense.

As I said, it's no big deal, but it's just something I miss. (Didn't the old forum setup have quotes like that?)

**Martoch** · September 29th, 2005, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by The Real Bingo on Thursday, Sept 29th, 7:38 C.S.T

Jason Voorhees is my favorite superstar!

Like that?

Hey, you edited your post!!!

**The Real Bingo** · September 29th, 2005, 08:41 PM

Haha, yeah, that's it. How'd you do that?

Stupid thing...it says it's Central Standard Time because I'm on -4:00 due to the stupid server not acknowledging the whole DST.

**paul9** · September 30th, 2005, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by The poster's name on Friday, September 30th, 23:38 B.S.T.

Just manually quote things with 'Quote=The poster's name on Friday, September 30th, 23:38 B.S.T.' in square brackets.

**batmeat** · September 30th, 2005, 07:32 PM

Yah, you would have to do it manually. An automatic insert would be nice though.

**The Real Bingo** · September 30th, 2005, 07:36 PM

But when I click "Quote" to quote Martoch, it just says...

[ quote = MY NAME ] Blah blah blah [ / quote ] I don't see where he would've inserted the time and date.

**elmers** · September 30th, 2005, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by The Real Bongo "random stuff here!"

I enjoy poetry

Quote this post and see how it works.

**nunyadam** · September 30th, 2005, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by elmers

Quote this post and see how it works.

ok so now what?

**Detritus** · September 30th, 2005, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Martoch at September 29th, 2005 08:38 PM

I have a big hairy chest!

**butch81385** · September 30th, 2005, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Detritus, with the most important post of the year! One can not imagine the pain and the suffering, the hard work and dedication it takes for one man to produce a post like this!

**The Real Bingo** · September 30th, 2005, 08:45 PM

Oh man, am I stupid. Ovbiously when I click quote, I won't be able to see the quote the person quoted who I want to quote. Get it?

That's another thing...the old forum would show quotes inside of quotes inside of quotes, etc. I liked that, too.

**Detritus** · September 30th, 2005, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by butch81385

**RobRich** · September 30th, 2005, 09:11 PM

TRB, would like for vB3 to auto-post for you as well?

The desired feature would involve script level modifications. Possible, but not fun, so don't look for such a change anytime soon.

**The Real Bingo** · September 30th, 2005, 09:13 PM

Auto-post? Are you implying something, Robert?

Didn't the old forum setup (vB2?) have this feature, though? What's different with this one?

**RobRich** · September 30th, 2005, 09:16 PM

vB3 and vB2 have two relatively different code paths, not to mention our install of vB2 was extremely modified (more like a fork of the source code), yet our install of vB3 is pretty much stock except for a few template changes.