Changing Quoted Text

I think we've been spared some of those awful multiple quotes. Some still takes part quotes out, copy and requote. I'm never keen on words taken out of context so I am happy with the improvement. 

Agree with the first sentence, sometimes a whole page just consisted of multiple quotes with only a smiley posted by the latest poster, and nothing of any note!  That is a vast improvement.

I still think that, used correctly, being able to crop text within a quote, was useful.  But of course it was also very easy to selectively crop text and then a post could end up by being misinterpreted.  As it is now, I have sometimes just copied and pasted part of a post into my reply, to make it clear what part I am responding to.  And of course that too can be selectively done, if people want to do that.

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The non staff mods don't have any access to member details, our editing is limited to what you see posted on the forum. Can I ask, did you feel that the change in wording made a difference to the meaning of what was originally posted? I will highlight this to Rowena to see if she can throw any light on it and she may well contact you direct, or alternatively you could contact her on the Community Manager e-mail.

David

I typed a response to a comment recently, posted it but immediately decided to edit it as it didn't make sense, but it had been quoted before I had time to repost it.

In answer to your question David, then as I said in my Opening Post the context of the quote wasn't affected. This is why I am merely asking how it can be done and I can see Cariadons explanation as being one that is reasonable, hence my wish not to accuse anyone of altering it. 

If there is another way it can be done then that indeed might lead to problems. 

It is merely an anomaly in the forum that came to when waking up on Sunday. Strange what happens in our sleep.

That’s the scenario I’ve been describing since the start of the thread. 

It's happened to me as well.

Agree, you described the only scenario that is possible on the first page, that is being quoted by anyone whilst the original is being edited by the 'owner' within the time out limit.

There is no shortage of anomalies on this forum    so it looks, as some suspected and others experimented with that a later edit on an original  post that has already been quoted does not change the wording in the quote. As I mentioned earlier I have raised this with Rowena so she may be able to provide a bit more information.

David