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Just bumping this to ask if it's something currently being looked into.

It would really be convenient, considering the rules about multiple posts in a row. It's a pain in the *** to have to edit your last post and insert extra quotes just to make sure you don't post 2+ times in a row. IMO, it would greatly improve forum functionality.

Edited, Jun 14th 2010 4:56pm by Spoonless

The nice thing about the vBulliten function is that you can multiquote across different pages in a thread, or even across different threads in a forum. It's pretty cool to be able to read through a thread and mark posts as you go that you find interesting and might want to respond to. When you get to the end of the thread, you hit "Reply" and you have a post window with all the quotes you tagged in it. You can then respond to the ones you want to and delete the others and make a single post responding to multiple quotes from the thread.

If we have an add on toolbar, I've never heard of it. Either way, you should trawl the user base and see what would be good on it. A smart multi quote button would be nice. If you want more details on how the above mentioned fark add on worked, I can look it up. But basically a poster would highlight certain text, then click a toolbar button, and their reply box would have text preformated to a reply. In alla land it would take the highlighted text and put it in an quote=name format.

Thanks, I think.

I am looking to be able to read through a thread and flag posts that I would like to respond to. When I am done reading, I want to click Reply, and have the reply text box already have all the posts I flagged quoted. That way I can respond to multiple quotes in one post.

Even if it's limited to say, 5 quotes and if it doesn't take nested quotes, it would still be great.

The situation you are looking to solve is when you are reading a thread, and you see something you want to reply to, so you "Reply to this" and make a post. You read some more, and do the same thing. One more time, and all of a sudden you see you've triple posted. Usually I will middle-click "Reply to this" on the posts I want to respond to so I can use "Quote Original" to extract the quotes and condense it to one reply post, but it is very unwieldy to do it that way.

Basically, the "Multiquote" button should take the result of doing "Quote Original" on each post that you click it on and put that in a queue. Upon clicking Reply, it should paste that text into the reply window.

Edited, Jun 18th 2010 5:47pm by Spoonless

That's fine if that's all you want to do. It would still being a pain breaking up a single post and responding to individual parts of it.

Would it be possible, to highlight text in someone's post while in reply mode, and have a little button over each post that would send the highlighted text up into the reply box, pre-formatted? If nothing else, Spoonless's idea would be nifty enough, I guess.

In IE, if you highlight text while in reply mode and hit "quote," it'll put it in the reply box with the quote tags around it. Then you just have to add the name. Doesn't work so well in FireFox, and I'm not sure why it's different between the browsers. But I used to do that all the time.

Anytime.

I hope that doesn't stop the multi-quote function discussion from happening, though, 'cause it'd be kick-*** to have that.

Just did it for that quote on FF. Super.