Too many people reply to posts typing in the quoted box

[NealC]

I see this far too often with XF 2.x and maybe there is a problem when quoting a reply and where the cursor is being placed? Maybe it's a mobile issue? I don't know. But it's happening enough that I want to raise this issue here. Here is an example reply which again I see this happen far too often.

Bleach spots on carpet

Any advice on how to deal with old bleach spot in tan/beige carpet? It the slide carpet right in front of fridge in 2017 Allegro Red 37pa. We are buying this coach and I know this spot will drive me crazy!

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[JoyFreak]

I see this far too often with XF 2.x and maybe there is a problem when quoting a reply and where the cursor is being placed? Maybe it's a mobile issue? I don't know. But it's happening enough that I want to raise this issue here. Here is an example reply which again I see this happen far too often.

Bleach spots on carpet

Any advice on how to deal with old bleach spot in tan/beige carpet? It the slide carpet right in front of fridge in 2017 Allegro Red 37pa. We are buying this coach and I know this spot will drive me crazy!

rvforums.com

Yeah, I get that a lot too on my forum. Thought it’s just people not understanding how to use it.

 

[Mendalla]

Not seen that save the odd time someone backspaces into a quote box (certain apes have been known to pull that one off ). I do have one member who has no f-ing clue about how to quote, or how to properly identify quotes from outside sources, no matter many times we have tried to explain it to her. I suspect she is doing it partly deliberately to have deniability ("Oh, that wasn't me, it was just something I quoted").

 

[NealC]

I see this from many members and it's a pretty big issue IMHO.

 

[rdn]

You can use this addon:

Unmaintained - [DCom] Quote Edit Ban

The prohibition on editing applies to quotes containing a link to the quoted message (i.e. added using the "Reply" button) Prohibition to change the quoted text. Cannot be modified using direct HTML editing in the browser console. Works even...

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[Faust]

I have same issue on my forum. Had to edit the posts every time.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I see this far too often with XF 2.x and maybe there is a problem when quoting a reply and where the cursor is being placed?

I'm not sure how that can happen, maybe a browser issuer? Because even if the cursor is inside a quote, as soon as you hit return it creates a second quote

 

[jeb35]

You mean the post inside the quote? It happens on our forum as well. I believe its just the user doesn't understand how to use it. We have a user that won't even use the reply or quote feature, he'll copy and paste someone reply and then his reply will be in all caps. lol.

 

[tajhay]

It's happening on my forum too. Sometimes with same user it's only on happening when on a particular device.

Hope someone can figure out what it is.

 

[NealC]

Experienced user...another example:

Help Propane Furnace making horrible loud noise.

This morning about 8am without warning the furnace in our 1997 Adventurer started making a very loud noise with a vibration, I immediately turned it off, I suspect it's the blower or one of the exhaust motors. I've done some searching and found that on the Adventurer it's most likely a Suburban...

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[jeb35]

There are issues right now with using the samsung browser on samsung phones using Xenforo. This could be part of it. Has something to do with the Froala editor and there is a thread here on XF about it.

 

[NealC]

Will not crank period 89 alumilite

Switch has no positive voltage

rvforums.com

Their reply is in quotes - strange!

 

[Moshe1010]

Could be related to any of these fixes:

https://froala.com/wysiwyg-editor/changelog/#4.0.17

 

[Mr Lucky]

A lot of people understandably think that to reply they click on the reply link, hence a quote of whole post is made even if it isn’t needed or intended.

Of course we think they should automatically know that, and to do a simple reply without a quote they just type onto the text editor. But it isn’t exactly intuitive, so I have changed that phrase to Reply & quote which seems a bit more descriptive.

I’d prefer a separate reply button that just opened text editor with no quote.

Of course that doesn’t explain how the cursor gets into the actual quote box.

 

[NealC]

Reply with quote is fine, replying within the same quoted block is the problem.

 

[Mr Lucky]

Reply with quote is fine, replying within the same quoted block is the problem.

Yes, the thread is about replying within the quote box, it is annoying.

 

[tajhay]

So...is there a fix for this?

 

[Kintaro]

My suggestion from 2016 got only 7 up votes but is still there:

Avoid breaking quotes in the reply box

I can see many users that bad quote inserting reply text inside quotes or breaking quote tags. I would like that in XF2 this kind of things could be avoided. Now we can quote selecting the text from the original post and add it to the "quote queue", why don't lock the quote text in the reply...

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[tajhay]

My suggestion from 2016 got only 7 up votes but is still there:

Avoid breaking quotes in the reply box

I can see many users that bad quote inserting reply text inside quotes or breaking quote tags. I would like that in XF2 this kind of things could be avoided. Now we can quote selecting the text from the original post and add it to the "quote queue", why don't lock the quote text in the reply...

xenforo.com

This issue is not the same thing. It's not about broken tags but moreso an issue with people primarily using samsung browser(or have a Web app installed initially from the Samsung browser).