How to remove nested quotes without breaking BBCode?

[Herold]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

[OmegaStarScream]

If you're quoting someone who already quoted someone else, you could just manually remove the inner quote tag. Find the second [quote author] and delete that with everything inside it until the tag ends with [/quote]

[Nwada001]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

That's supposed to be simple; you just have to figure out where the person you don't want to quote belongs in the quote and remove that part. If you have an example of the post that you want to reply to, drop a link, and we'll use it and show you an illustration for you to understand better.

[tbct_mt2]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

It is easy.

[TIPS] to avoid pyramid quotes (for Newbies)
[Tips] Posting technique.
Post formatting for newbies.

You can use an userscript for that too.
Automatically remove nested quotes v1.1.1

[Charles-Tim]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

You can make it easy if you copy what you want to quite, delete everything that was posted except the start and end quote of the user that you want to quote, paste what you want to quote between the start and end quote and write what you want to write below the end quote. This is how I prefer to do it.

[Cyber_warrior]

It's not difficult just delete the authors contents together with tag quotes that encloses his contents. Do the same for every users posts you want to filter out.

Or you can easily tap on the quoted link of the user you want reply to so it takes you the post and then you quote the user easily.

[Pmalek]

It's not difficult once you understand how the structure looks like. Also, always use the "Preview" button to see how your quote looks like before posting. If there is an error and it looks broken, you can correct it before submitting your post.

Here is an example from a post from another thread, where acroman08 quoted and replied to a post of another user.



Imagine that I wanted to reply to and only quote the last part of his post. The "Don't plagarise"... at the bottom.



I would have to remove everything in the middle. Only leave the top part, which is the quote and link to the post you are quoting and the closing "[/quote]".

What you are left with is this:



Write your reply under the "[/quote]" and you are done. Again, use the "Preview" button to your advantage to check if everything looks ok before posting.

[DYING_S0UL]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

You need to carefully remove the "bbcode" of the person you don't wanna quote, as well as his reply. It's not really that hard, just needs your close attention. I'm not able to explain it in text, so look at the image below and see if you understand the wroking process of it.

The red is the 1st comment, then someone quoted him making the 2nd comment (green), then the 3rd comment (yellow). Notice that, I have made a box, and see all of them has two tags, first one the starting tag, and the last with "/" ending tag.

Now for example, consider you don't want to reply to the 3rd comment. So you just remove the content from the yellow box. The rest two box cannot be touched. It's all about bbcode, and how and where you write them.

[promise444c5]

If you’re using a mobile device, it might be hard to do so you can try using your note apps to edit and remove the necessary parts as explained in the links and details provided by other users. Alternatively, you might want to consider trying out a UserScript tool from TryNinja: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5566399.0, could make it much more easier to do especially if you’re a lazy type like me

[The Cryptovator]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

Take it easy; it's very simple. If you can't do it the complicated way, then there is an easy way as well. If I want to quote something that is already quoted by multiple users, then I just copy the content and paste it into my post. Then I copy the tagline of the author and paste it again above the content that was already pasted before. That's it; now close the quote and start replying. Closing a quote is quite simple; just type, [/quote] and it's closed now.

But make sure you copied the same author content and tag line. Otherwise it will be a mixed quote that will misguide the whole reply. Hope you got what I said; often I do it from a complicated quote. It's like forum rules. If I need to quote a specific part, then I don't quote all of them and delete it; I just simply copy it along with the copy author tagline.

If you're quoting someone who already quoted someone else, you could just manually remove the inner quote tag. Find the second [quote author] and delete that with everything inside it until the tag ends with

It will be very confusing for pyramid quotes if a newbie wants to quote a specific part. Better copy-paste, less chance for mixing or breaking code lines.

[noorman0]

Copy the text you want to quote > click "reply" to the post > delete the text from the 2nd line to the last then paste the copied text and end it with "[/quoted]" > then write your reply content.

Manually deleting multiple quotes is actually difficult if you're using a mobile phone.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

It will be very confusing for pyramid quotes if a newbie wants to quote a specific part. Better copy-paste, less chance for mixing or breaking code lines.

I agree, but they have to know how to do this with pyramid posts too.
They can click on quote to get this part

Code:

[quote author=The Cryptovator link=topic=5576454.msg66475233#msg66475233 date=1772703894]

then they can copy and paste content part in the post, and end it with

Code:

[/quote]

It's similar to trick to quote posts in locked topics before PowerGlove made a SMF patch. Fortunately, what they do is not for locked topics, so there is no need to use Time converter like in the guide and as said, the SMF patch was used for the forum already.

A guide to quoting posts in locked topics

[TokenTikas]

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

Many people have already explained everything to you with clear and simple examples, so I believe you should be able to understand the matter by now. However, if you still find it difficult to understand properly, you can freely share your opinion without any hesitation. Everyone will gladly help and explain it to you in a simple and respectful way.

Code:

[quote author=The Cryptovator link=topic=5576454.msg66475233#msg66475233 date=1772703894]

then they can copy and paste content part in the post, and end it with

Code:

[/quote]

Everyone has already given you clear examples and along with that I have also quoted the example given by SquirrelJulietGarden. You can keep the post you want to use and remove the others, then before making the final post make sure you check everything using the [PREVIEW] option to confirm that everything is correct. After confirming that everything looks fine, you can go ahead and publish the post.

[Herold]

If you're quoting someone who already quoted someone else, you could just manually remove the inner quote tag. Find the second [quote author] and delete that with everything inside it until the tag ends with

[/quote] I was lost with all those brackets lol

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

You can make it easy if you copy what you want to quite, delete everything that was posted except the start and end quote of the user that you want to quote, paste what you want to quote between the start and end quote and write what you want to write below the end quote. This is how I prefer to do it.

Thanks for the explanation! I was struggling with long threads

If you’re using a mobile device, it might be hard to do so you can try using your note apps to edit and remove the necessary parts as explained in the links and details provided by other users. Alternatively, you might want to consider trying out a UserScript tool from TryNinja: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5566399.0, could make it much more easier to do especially if you’re a lazy type like me

Doing it in desktop only and I'm a lazy typer haha Thanks!

How to quote correctly? If the person quoted someone else and I don't want to quote that third person. The formating crushes when I do that.

Take it easy; it's very simple. If you can't do it the complicated way, then there is an easy way as well. If I want to quote something that is already quoted by multiple users, then I just copy the content and paste it into my post. Then I copy the tagline of the author and paste it again above the content that was already pasted before. That's it; now close the quote and start replying. Closing a quote is quite simple; just type,

and it's closed now.

But make sure you copied the same author content and tag line. Otherwise it will be a mixed quote that will misguide the whole reply. Hope you got what I said; often I do it from a complicated quote. It's like forum rules. If I need to quote a specific part, then I don't quote all of them and delete it; I just simply copy it along with the copy author tagline.

If you're quoting someone who already quoted someone else, you could just manually remove the inner quote tag. Find the second [quote author] and delete that with everything inside it until the tag ends with

It will be very confusing for pyramid quotes if a newbie wants to quote a specific part. Better copy-paste, less chance for mixing or breaking code lines.
 
[/quote] looks safe for newbies haha

[lovesmayfamilis]

Thanks for the explanation! I was struggling with long threads

It looks like you still have them. You should learn to answer them all in one post instead of multi-posting.
rule:
32. Posting multiple posts

[Cricktor]

I commonly report violations of rule #32 (and others of Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ) when I spot them, because they are annoying and lengthen threads mindlessly.

I wonder why new (and some older) accounts don't know or want to pay attention to (certain) forum rules.


OP also still seems to struggle and screw up with with sanitizing quotes as there are still orphaned [/quote] in his posts.

When I reply to multiple quotes of multiple posts in one thread and those posts are not to far from most recent reply, I insert and edit the quotes from the Topic Summary below the text entry box of a Post reply. Recent posts in the Topic Summary all have an Insert Quote link in the top right corner which inserts a quote of the post at the cursor position in your Post reply text entry box.

After such a quote insertion I usually remove unnecessary parts of the quote or replace all quoted stuff with just "..." or "<snip>" if I'm not refering to something that needs to be repeated and only want to indicate that I'm replying to something in the quoted user's post.

And it helps to use the Preview button to see and check one's own post before submitting it.