everyone has seen those posts that take 3 full mousewheel rotations to go over
if you wanted to quote the entire thing (as apposed to a small part of it)
what could you replace the large quote with to save space, but still let people recognize what you are trying to quote?
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I just do that.
I basically say I’m quoting them but don’t actually include anything of what they said. I hope people understand what I mean when I do that though!
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Or spoiler it maybe?
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> I basically say I’m quoting them but don’t actually include anything of what they said. I hope people understand what I mean when I do that though!
Problem with that is that people don’t know what you’re talking about. If that person has multiple posts in the thread, you can’t tell which post you’re replying to.
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> Problem with that is that people don’t know what you’re talking about. If that person has multiple posts in the thread, you can’t tell which post you’re replying to.
Yes, there is that problem. I’ve only ever used it when replying pretty much directly below the post in question. If there were other more recent posts from the same person I would have to include the text that I was referring to.
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That’s usually what I do. You could also break the large quote up into chunks and address it piece by piece, but that involves manually adding the quote tags.
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I have never actually thought of using the Spoiler Tag as a snip for large quotes
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you mean like this? 
i do that a lot
but i meant when you want to reply to the whole quote in general, without highlighting specifics
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well, i you’re willing to type up responses to lost of parts of the quote, then typing [ quote] and
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shouldn’t be a problem…
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> well, i you’re willing to type up responses to lost of parts of the quote, then typing [ quote] and [ /quote] shouldn’t be a problem…
Yeah, but I’ve found myself going, “Wait, this end tag belongs to what?” and I’ve ended up with some funny-looking posts.
That, and I’m admittedly lazy sometimes.