Posting Quotes....

Sometimes just tying my shoes.

Loafers

Velcro.

DUCT TAPE!

Doesn't matter, I usually don't have them on the right feet anyway!

I remember when I was a kid in the Pacific Northwest. The in thing to wear to school were loggers boots (no spikes). Those were a pain to lace and tie.

Superglue

Miss POI was talking about "Quotes" and somehow the topic changed to tying shoes, loafing, Duct Tap & Super Glue . . . maybe the time change is affecting everyone.

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
Albert Einstein

Opening qoute

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Closing quote

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

LOL!

Is there anyway to view the newest posts first when reading a thread? I have to scroll to the bottom and then select the last page shown and then scroll to the bottom again to read the newest post.

You can go to the last page of a multi page thread without going to the bottom first by clicking on the last page number shown directly under the first post of the thread. A lot of forum software allows you to select to go to the last post but either it doesn't exist in this forum or it hasn't been turned on.

The one thing I don't understand why when you make a post on a multi page thread it takes you back to the first page of the thread once the post is accepted.

Lots of good folks with great ideas here though.

Thanks. I'm a real novice (some would say a dinosaur) at this stuff, but I enjoy this site - participants seem to be a great bunch of folks overall.

If you use the "Unread Posts" selection from the menu, it takes you to the new posts in each thread ... even the multi-page ones.

you mean like this.

actually more like this!

Try the "unread posts" selection. It works quite good if you "mark the forums read" after each session.

Try the "recent posts" too; you may like it better.

But the cat is dead either way!

If the cat were dead, how would it meow when you pulled the tail? And if there were no cat, then how can you state it is dead?

Hey! You just observed the cat meowing and changed the outcome!

NO. It's the full moon.

This is not telling me how to use quotes, it would be nice for someone tell me how, look I'm old and have lost a few cells up top or are they down there. How about a full disclosure on quoting, just for me.

Personally, I refrain from quoting those above a reply. And, using 'nested quotes' is a plain PITA to read. Strip the invalid portion by editing it.

This is a nested quote:

You can read about the way quotes are done here:

http://www.poi-factory.com/filter/tips

Scroll down to where you see this text: Quoted content can be placed between .....

Note that the quoting, including nested quotes, occurs automatically when you choose "quote" instead of "reply " at the bottom of the post you want to respond to.

Improper editing of the automatically generated parts is where things can go wrong. For example one or more closing tags may wind up missing and the result is a mess.

before and made a big mess. I don't know if I'll tried it again, not very friendly IMO.

This is a reply to Evert! Sorry but i still don't get it.

Thanks
Lee

I assume that you followed the link and read the instructions.

If you did, and still do not understand it - don't sweat it. There are two kinds of posters: those that do quotes and those that do not. You can simply be one of the latter kind.

If you want to directly quote a poster, click the 'Quote' on that post.

If you click 'Quote' on a post, that has other quote(s), you will get a nested quote, that is, the previous quotes within your quote.

Evert, I followed the link and more confused I got. LOL!
Whish my father was still around, he was good with HTML. I miss you Dad!

Thanks again Evert!

Lee

You are welcome.

I hope I did it!

You pass!

Evert and Juggernut for the today's lesson.

Job well done guys!

Lee

Indeed you did. If you wanted to put stuff in "quotes" yourself just for emphasis, then here is the procedure.

Start with the character string "left bracket" "q" "u" "o" "t" "e" "right bracket". This identifies each collection of words that you wish to make a "quote" that will be enclosed in a gray box. Then end with the character string "left bracket" "/" "q" "u" "o" "t" "e" "right bracket" to identify that you are finished with that collection of words.

Note that the title of my post is the way the character strings look when you type them within a posting. I can do them in the title because the title does not allow "quoting"

This thread is old with good information and great intertainment!!

Actually, the pages (if more than 1) are also under the first post. You can select the last page there.

When the page appears, hold down the "Ctrl" key and then press the "End" key. It's near the "Delete" key (depending on your keyboard style). This will take you directly to the bottom of the page that is currently displayed.

That's a quick way to to the newest post that you have never visited before.

Thank you JGermann!

Just a thought but questions pertaining to quotes can perhaps become exercise 8

That's why I use Velcro!