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  • 27-02-2010 4:15pm
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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭


    It would be handy to be able to quote posts from locked threads.


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    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    Not the feature you're looking for but if you copy and paste the username, post number and text content into the quote tags it will work.


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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    A lot of hassle if you want to quote multiple posts.


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    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    It certainly would be, yes.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Boston wrote: »
    It would be handy to be able to quote posts from locked threads.

    We're pretty unlikely to add this feature. The point of locking threads is to prevent further replies so adding this wouldn't make a lot of sense IMHO.


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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Conor wrote: »
    We're pretty unlikely to add this feature. The point of locking threads is to prevent further replies so adding this wouldn't make a lot of sense IMHO.

    Ah but not all threads are locked for that reason. Example being charter thread. Also some old threads are locked due to information being out of date, but some of it might still be relevant.


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    Conor
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    Boston wrote: »
    Ah but not all threads are locked for that reason. Example being charter thread. Also some old threads are locked due to information being out of date, but some of it might still be relevant.

    Indeed, but the majority are locked to prevent people replying and since we have no way of allowing quotes from one type of locked thread and not from another then we're going to leave it as-is.

    If/when we add explicit functionality for charters and old threads we might revisit this.


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    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    Grand.


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