A dilemma regarding quoting.

[SenorEverClever]

So...
How do you quote something from a locked thread? I can't seem to think up a way to do it practically.

I didn't look extensively for a similar thread so if there is one please direct me to it.




(Also,
Booyeah, bitches. First thread since my jailing!)

[Stephen]

You can't. Sometimes annoying, but that's how it goes. Just copy/paste the text, adding back in any code if necessary.

[SenorEverClever]

What code would that be? The user and the post number?

[Anonymous]

That, as well as any BBcode, or HTML. Good luck quoting anything heavily formatted.

[NotASenator]

If it's a huge formatted post, PM me and I'll edit it in for you.

[SenorEverClever]

It's nothing major. Just some text.

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

It is simple to labor-intensive to quote a locked thread: just copy and paste the text, wrap it in quote tags, and then type in the [ quote=] tags area: [ quote=Whoever said this]. Then right click on the post number, and copy the link location.

for this post, you get:
http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread...=1#post4231496

The number at the end of the post is what is used in a quotebox: that post is 4231496.
So then type, after a semicolon, the post number so the quote refers back to it:
[ quote=Whoever said this;4231496]This is a post[/quote]

without the space, this produces:

This is a post

[SenorEverClever]

bluh bluh huge quote

Like this?

w00t it worked!

[Wheeeeeeatthins]

You solved the puzzle! hooooooray

[MrCheeze]

Better yet, just link to the post.

[The Random One]

Also, in most browsers (well, all the browsers I use anyway) you can just park your pointer on top of the post number and see the number on the bottom of the window (where it previews what URL it will bring you to).

[eerr]

If you are feeling really ambitious, you can dig through

page-view source, then find the post manually.

but html generated by software is pretty hard to read, so.

[simon.clarkstone]

So...
How do you quote something from a locked thread? I can't seem to think up a way to do it practically.

People have already said how to get the formatting of the quote box right to include a link, but no-one AFAICT has said how to get the exact BBCode out of the post.

I have figured out how. It involves abusing the multi-quote feature, so you will want to play with that for a minute or two to get a feel for how it works. Notice how it works across threads and forums.

The muti-quote information is stored in a cookie called "vbulletin_multiquote", so you can just hit any multi-quote button to create the cookie, then use a cookie-editing add-on to your browser has to edit the cookie to contain the post id of the post you want to quote. (If you want to quote multiple ones, they are separated by %2C i.e. a URL-encoded comma.) Then when making a post the board will act as if you had used multi-quote to select that post, and you can insert the quoting in the usual manner.

For me (in Chrome, using the "Edit this cookie" addon) it's almost as easy as creating a fresh [quote] block and pasting the post number in there. For example, I can quote Forapocalypse #8 verbatim:

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> NAS: Get Michael to make another backup

congressionalAbsconder [CA] began pestering astralColossus [AC]

CA: Betel…um
CA: You almost hit me with that toilet.
CA: The one you tossed through my window.
CA: The window that doesn't open.
CA: It destroyed my ferret habitat
CA: And blocked the door.
CA: There are ferrets running everywhere.
CA: I think Spike is actually INSIDE one of my computers.
CA: That can't be healthy.
CA: But more importantly, I can't get to the alchemiter and time is really getting kind of short here. I would appreciate it if you could move it into my room here so I could not die.
CA: Betel?
CA: Are you there?
CA: I swear, if I die because you are LARPing Order of the Phoenix again, we're not going to be friends anymore.
CA: Hello?

congressionalAbsconder [CA] stopped pestering astralColossus [AC]

congressionalAbsconder [CA] began pestering courteousGangsta [CG]

CA: Michael! I require your always valuable assistance in this, my time of greatest need.
CG: Bro you know I got you. Whatchoo need, some ill rhymes?
CA: While I normally would never turn down the opportunity to be floored by the mad lyrics you articulate so poignantly, this might not be the time.
CA: I'm rather sure that I am about to die.
CG: Well if you're sure, what the hell can I do?
CA: I might be a goner, but the forum can live on. Tynic is going to connect to you through the game I sent you, and get you out of harm's way, but first I need you to do something.
CA: Last time I was out there, for the Great MidWestern Hip Hop Battle and Chili Cookoff, I installed a forum control panel next to your computer
CA: There's a bunch of buttons that do things like lock threads and ban users and stuff. Then there's a green one labeled FORUM BACKUP. It makes a backup of the database and puts it on a floppy.
CG: What's up with this red button? I find it alluring.
CA: OH GOD whatever you do don't press that button!
CA: It randomly deletes one subforum.
CG: Why the hell does a button like that exist even?
CA: In case things ever got out of hand, we can use it to relieve the pressure. Like that thing in LOST.
CA: So just stay away from that one
CG: Did Cindy ever fill you in on my habit of asking what things are once I've already pressed them? eg. buttons
CA: What? NO. Don't tell me that you pressed it.
CG: Look why would you even colour a button red if you didn't want it to be touched
CG: Red is the colour of things you are meant to be pawing at, like ripe apples or fire alarms
CA: I have to see this.
CA: Oh god, you destroyed the general chat forum.
CA: We're boned. I know it.
CG: Would it help if I pressed the red button a second time? Like, maybe it would delete the deleted forum, which would bring it back. You know? Like a double delete?
CA: ghf43yhnm ht
CA: Do you see what you've made me do? I'm literally smashing my face into my keyboard.
CA: Just don't touch anything.
CA: Forget about the backup. I'm gonna try to find a way to get to that alchemiter.
CA: If I die...
CA: If you ever meet Gwenyth Paltrow...tell her I always loved her.
CG: You got it.

congressionalAbsconder [CA] stopped pestering courteousGangsta [CG]


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[plainWonder]

simon, I'm trying out your solution. I'm looking at my cookies folder right now (alright, Temporary Internet Files), and I can't seem to find the cookie you mention. There is a JavaScript file though, with the same name, and a cookie of these fora. Do you have any more directions for me?

[simon.clarkstone]

simon, I'm trying out your solution. I'm looking at my cookies folder right now (alright, Temporary Internet Files), and I can't seem to find the cookie you mention. There is a JavaScript file though, with the same name, and a cookie of these fora. Do you have any more directions for me?

I think the cookie is only created if you have clicked a multi-quote button. Which web browser are you using? It sounds like IE. Whichever it is, it will probably not notice if you edit a cookies file directly while it is running, and since vbulletin_multiquote is a session cookie it is probably deleted when you close the browser.

If you can, get some kind of add-on that allows you to edit the cookies within the browser (both Chrome and Firefox seem to have such add-ons available). Beyond that I don't know.