How to reply to a particular post in a thread

I'm trying to answer individually  everybody that wrote in my thread about  " how is everybody doing and truck plans for next year"  I see that some of them will have at the top of the post : example   86 1/2 Brutus wrote ( is in bold letters ) and it says a particular piece that i wrote.  How do you do that?

 

86 1/2 Brutus wrote

I'm trying to answer individually  everybody that wrote in my thread about  " how is everybody doing and truck plans for next year"  I see that some of them will have at the top of the post : example   86 1/2 Brutus wrote ( is in bold letters ) and it says a particular piece that i wrote.  How do you do that?

If you push the "Quote" button on the left end of the buttons the system will paste in whatever the person you are replying to said.  And if that person had quoted another person then the other person's statement would be in as well.

So, I quoted your post, as you can see above.  I'll now post this and then reply to myself and you'll see that when I quote my post it includes your post.

Gary Lewis wrote

86 1/2 Brutus wrote

I'm trying to answer individually  everybody that wrote in my thread about  " how is everybody doing and truck plans for next year"  I see that some of them will have at the top of the post : example   86 1/2 Brutus wrote ( is in bold letters ) and it says a particular piece that i wrote.  How do you do that?

If you push the "Quote" button on the left end of the buttons the system will paste in whatever the person you are replying to said.  And if that person had quoted another person then the other person's statement would be in as well.

So, I quoted your post, as you can see above.  I'll now post this and then reply to myself and you'll see that when I quote my post it includes your post.

See, it includes your post because I quoted you.

Gary Lewis wrote

86 1/2 Brutus wrote

I'm trying to answer individually  everybody that wrote in my thread about  " how is everybody doing and truck plans for next year"  I see that some of them will have at the top of the post : example   86 1/2 Brutus wrote ( is in bold letters ) and it says a particular piece that i wrote.  How do you do that?

If you push the "Quote" button on the left end of the buttons the system will paste in whatever the person you are replying to said.  And if that person had quoted another person then the other person's statement would be in as well.

So, I quoted your post, as you can see above.  I'll now post this and then reply to myself and you'll see that when I quote my post it includes your post.

Like this?

I got it, thanks Gary

Yep.  But to add a bit, you can put several quotes in one post.

Here's your last statement that I put in by just pressing Quote:

86 1/2 Brutus wrote

I got it, thanks Gary

Here's your original question, which I got by playing like I was going to reply to that post, hitting Quote, copying the text it inserted, then coming here and pasting it in.

86 1/2 Brutus wrote

I'm trying to answer individually  everybody that wrote in my thread about  " how is everybody doing and truck plans for next year"  I see that some of them will have at the top of the post : example   86 1/2 Brutus wrote ( is in bold letters ) and it says a particular piece that i wrote.  How do you do that?

So you could put everyone's responses in as quotes and respond to them individually if you wanted.

Then you've also got the "In reply to this post..." text that shows up.

Someone correct me if wrong as I've never really paid real close attention but I think it shows up if you click Reply on any post that is not the most recent one.

Yes, that's the way it works.

Thanks Gary - I like that feature.

Gary Lewis wrote

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No he didn't!  But it's easy when "quoting" someone to edit what they said and make it look like they said something they never did say.  Don't do that!  I haven't seen it here, but on other boards I've (rarely) seen where someone changed what someone else said.  If it's done for humor (and it's obvious that you did it) that's one thing.  But if it's to make someone else look bad, or yourself look better?  Don't do that.

But, there are times where editing a quite can be a good idea.  For instance, I almost always delete out pictures someone else posted, just so we don't all have to wait for that picture to load multiple times when opening a page (I might keep a picture in if I'm commenting on it).

Or if I'm commenting on a specific part of a longer post I might delete all the rest of the post.  But when I do that I'll put "...." in place of the text I deleted to make it more clear that the person said more (in case my editing takes something out of context).

Not saying others need to do it the way I do.  But I do think everyone needs to be a little careful in this area.  It's so easy to miscommunicate on a bulletin board!

Well said, Bob!

Very well said.  People can be ugly enough in some of these groups, especially on facebook.  Thankfully it dosent happen here.

Gary Lewis wrote

Yes, that's the way it works.

This is a test.