I've tried to quote posts in the 'What books are you currently reading?' thread, and over the past two days have had to fix the quote tags manually. (some other recent posts in that thread also look to be misquoted) It's happened to me now both with Firefox on a PC and Safari on a mac.
I just noticed another post that was mis-quoted in the Off-Topic: Samnell: Question about the historicity of Jesus thread.
It appears to me that an extra {/QUOTE} (oops, this is invisible with correct brackets....) is being inserted into the quoted part of the post.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Usually this is from someone breaking the quote tags when they attempt to reply to a message itself containing quotes, and removing the older quotes. Any attempt to quote the broken post will likewise be broken, because it is copying text with an extra closing (or opening) tag in it.
Can you point me to the exact posts you are referring to (or flag them as 'BBC/Markup problem'), so I can see if we have a bug?
Usually this is from someone breaking the quote tags when they attempt to reply to a message itself containing quotes, and removing the older quotes. Any attempt to quote the broken post will likewise be broken, because it is copying text with an extra closing (or opening) tag in it.
Can you point me to the exact posts you are referring to (or flag them as 'BBC/Markup problem'), so I can see if we have a bug?
Will do; thanks for looking into this!
(sorry about the spaces in the links...)
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/offTopic/samnellQuestionAbou tTheHistoricityOfJesus&page=1#42
This looks like it's the first one in the books thread (I fixed the tags in my posts following this one) -
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/community/gamerLife/books/whatBooksAre YouCurrentlyReading&page=45#2218
I was a bit surprised to see it in two threads (having never seen/noticed it before), but your explanation sounds very plausible to me.