Can't see who a person is quoting?

Swooped·Oct 12, 2014·13 votes·804 views

With the old GD is showed who you were quoting

now all we get it this thing

Can you please add a way to see who a person is quoting.

7 Comments

SmokingPuffinOct 12, 20143 votes

Pretty sure they are already working on this.

It's an especially serious problem on new GD, with the forced chronological view you can't flip to discussion view to go find the information.

Sir ArmaMalumOct 17, 20142 votes

There are two different views available. You can switch between them at the top left corner of the comments section.

Chronological view is the same kind of view as vBulletin (old forums). GD is locked to this.

Discussion view is Reddit-style nested comments.

Unfortunately replies via discussion view do not 'proc' a quote in chronological view, causing a lot of confusion between those who use one or the other exclusively. This is being actively worked on and i known to the Boards team I can assure you.

DrukyulOct 15, 20141 votes

Is there no way to see quote trees ala Reddit? I swear I've seen it a couple times on Boards but then it just doesn't happen the rest of the time. So confused.

DaejinTyeOct 15, 20141 votes

The best way to do it is to add it yourself... Simply using the greater than sign (>) in front of the line and you go into quote mode, so just add the person's name to the top with > in font of it.

Example:

Daejin Wrote: The best way to do it is to add it yourself... Simply using the greater than sign (>) in front of the line and you go into quote mode, so just add the person's name to the top with > in font of it.

Hyrum GraffOct 17, 20141 votes

DaejinTye wrote: The best way to do it is to add it yourself... Simply using the greater than sign (>) in front of the line and you go into quote mode, so just add the person's name to the top with > in font of it.

Example:

Daejin Wrote: The best way to do it is to add it yourself... Simply using the greater than sign (>) in front of the line and you go into quote mode, so just add the person's name to the top with > in font of it.

For the moment, this. It's also really nice if you include a link to that person's comment, like I did in this post.

Better quoting, natively, is coming soon (TM).

^While I jest about the time frame, I actually appreciate that the Boards team hasn't just rushed out the first solution they can think of; I'd rather deal with current quoting for a little longer, then get something totally awesome, then get something half-assed, tomorrow. I'm there are people who disagree with me, but I can't speak for them.