Changing Quoted Text

Try as I might I can’t alter your quoted post in any way, WN.

What happened to me once was that I edited my post but, in the time it took me to do that, someone quoted and replied to my original post with the result that the original and the quoted posts were different. I wonder if that's what happened in the case you refer to.

No, TW. I can promise you that the quoted text was from one member and the reply from another. Saw it twice, same member replying but two different members who were quoted. Just wondered whether anything like predictive text can alter a quoted text but the outcome of both quotes was to reduce or even miss out some section of text. 

Before the "revamp" it was possible to change text within a quoted text, but AFAIK not since then.

Must admit that I found that quite useful, when replying to a long post, so that it was obvious which bit of a post was being referred to.

Ina, I'm talking about changing something in the above quoted grey box not copying part of a text and then pasting it. Are you talking about the same thing, ie changing text in the grey box?

Yes, I am.  You used to be able to click the "quote" button, then you could delete text from the quote. I found that very useful, particularly in the case of a long post, as it meant my reply post, together with the quoted part, didn't fill half a page in some cases!

You're right, Ina, and it was stopped when the site was relaunched due to people being misquoted by the quote being altered.

Sorry, you've completely lost me. 

Surely the quoted text is bound to be from a different poster than the one who replies? 

Yes, unfortunately, at times, it wasn't being used correctly, and was open to abuse.  Using it in the right way I still maintain it was useful.

Sorry, TW. 

On 2 separate occasions I have seen quoted texts change from the original. The first time the text actually changed. It was a very short sentence that became shorter and a new word was introduced.

The second time was one where text was omitted. The same member was the person doing the replying.

In both occasions the meaning of the quotes were not altered by the changes. Hope this is a bit clearer.

I didn't know that you could do that on the previous forum.

A quote of mine was altered on the previous forum, WN, and it changed the sense of what I wrote. 

I still think the scenario I described in my first post above could explain what you saw but it’s quite a coincidence that the same poster was involved in both instances. 

Why not ask Rowena about it.