how does everybody make the snappy quotes

pfflampfflam
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Many people seem to quote in such a way that it reads "Originally posted by blahblah" and then the body of the text is bolded. I can't help but think that all these people are doing something to get the phrase "Originally posted by blahblah" without typing it in inbetween the UBB code quotes . . .



am I missing something? how is it done? or does everybody wpend al that time typing the same phrase so neatly?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    pastapasta Posts: 112member
    [quote]Originally posted by pfflam:

    <strong>Many people seem to quote in such a way that it reads "Originally posted by blahblah" and then the body of the text is bolded. I can't help but think that all these people are doing something to get the phrase "Originally posted by blahblah" without typing it in inbetween the UBB code quotes . . .



    am I missing something? how is it done? or does everybody wpend al that time typing the same phrase so neatly?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    it's done automatically when you click on the reply button.



    [quote]Originally posted by pfflam:

    <strong>Many people seem to quote in such a way that it reads "Originally posted by blahblah" and then the body of the text is bolded. I can't help but think that all these people are doing something to get the phrase "Originally posted by blahblah" without typing it in inbetween the UBB code quotes . . .



    am I missing something? how is it done? or does everybody wpend al that time typing the same phrase so neatly?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    then you can copy and paste it several times over.



    [quote]Originally posted by pfflam:

    <strong>Many people seem to quote in such a way that it reads "Originally posted by blahblah" and then the body of the text is bolded. I can't help but think that all these people are doing something to get the phrase "Originally posted by blahblah" without typing it in inbetween the UBB code quotes . . .



    am I missing something? how is it done? or does everybody wpend al that time typing the same phrase so neatly?</strong><hr></blockquote>





  • Reply 2 of 5
    mac+mac+ Posts: 580member
    [quote]Originally posted by pfflam:

    <strong>Many people seem to quote in such a way that it reads "Originally posted by blahblah" and then the body of the text is bolded. I can't help but think that all these people are doing something to get the phrase "Originally posted by blahblah" without typing it in inbetween the UBB code quotes . . .



    am I missing something? how is it done? or does everybody wpend al that time typing the same phrase so neatly?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Try hitting the reply button in the post you want to quote and it should come out all neat like this.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    mac+mac+ Posts: 580member
    oops - pasta beat me to it by 4 minutes! <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />

    That's ridiculous: I didn't take that long to compose my previous message did I? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 4 of 5
    stroszekstroszek Posts: 801member
    Or, if for some reason you want to do it by hand, the code is:

    [.QUOTE][.QB]text here[./QB][./QUOTE]



    Just take out the periods.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by Stroszek:

    <strong>Or, if for some reason you want to do it by hand, the code is:

    [.QUOTE][.QB]text here[./QB][./QUOTE]



    Just take out the periods.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    But that doesn't add "Originally posted by..."
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