I’m not 100% sure I chose the right category.
In some text over here (I think it is in the forum rules) it is mentioned that you can “Reply into a new thread”. Is that possible without copy and paste?
If you need your topic moved to a different category, I can do that, or any Regular member has access to as well (and are allowed to at their discretion.)
You can actually quote text from another topic into a new message. If you start composing a reply in the bottom half of the window, you’d normally quote from the previous message by highlighting and choosing “Quote” to capture the message formatted as a quote. You can do that from anywhere.
Start a reply or a new message and leave the composer open and browse the forum in the upper half to other topics and quote from a different message. I’ll do it below; leave my message open and navigate above to “Chess Chats”:
For good measure, here’s a quote from another topic:
When you reply after browsing, the forum will confirm whether you want to reply in the topic you’re on, or in the one you started from.
That works too! I forgot about that. I think that basically enables a user-initiated topic reply split.
I use that particular button most of the time to be sneaky.
Staff have the ability to “whisper” private messages in-thread, basically we can discuss what’s happening with each other inline and MST3K the goings-on.
And the regular users never know!
…wait, is this thing on?
<slappy hand-fights with @Draconis> you have to hit the button…no th-