So why do people quoting me lose the first letter I wrote?
So why do people quoting me lose the first letter I wrote?
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McSam

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6,753 posts

204 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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Apologies if this has been answered before, but I can't find any threads on it.

Whenever someone quotes one of my posts, the first character drops off my post in the quote - such as you can see when I get quoted a couple of times in this thread. I can quote people perfectly normally, and nobody else quoting anybody else does this, so I don't think it's a browser problem - but even quoting myself loses the first letter of my post!

Try it on this post and see if it still happens.

All I've noticed is that - again, see in the link - it doesn't happen if the first character of my post isn't a letter, but part of a quote (or I assume any other) tag.

Can't say it's killing me, like, but it looks untidy and I'm curious! What's doing this?

Cheers smile

BliarOut

72,863 posts

268 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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McSam said:
Apologies if this has been answered before, but I can't find any threads on it.

Whenever someone quotes one of my posts, the first character drops off my post in the quote - such as you can see when I get quoted a couple of times in this thread. I can quote people perfectly normally, and nobody else quoting anybody else does this, so I don't think it's a browser problem - but even quoting myself loses the first letter of my post!

Try it on this post and see if it still happens.

All I've noticed is that - again, see in the link - it doesn't happen if the first character of my post isn't a letter, but part of a quote (or I assume any other) tag.

Can't say it's killing me, like, but it looks untidy and I'm curious! What's doing this?

Cheers smile
Eh?

Bugeyeandy

12,600 posts

226 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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McSam said:
pologies if this has been answered before, but I can't find any threads on it.

Whenever someone quotes one of my posts, the first character drops off my post in the quote - such as you can see when I get quoted a couple of times in this thread. I can quote people perfectly normally, and nobody else quoting anybody else does this, so I don't think it's a browser problem - but even quoting myself loses the first letter of my post!

Try it on this post and see if it still happens.

All I've noticed is that - again, see in the link - it doesn't happen if the first character of my post isn't a letter, but part of a quote (or I assume any other) tag.

Can't say it's killing me, like, but it looks untidy and I'm curious! What's doing this?

Cheers smile
Seems fine to me biggrin

thetapeworm

13,810 posts

268 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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McSam said:
AAAAAAAAAAplogies if this has been answered before, but I can't find any threads on it.

Whenever someone quotes one of my posts, the first character drops off my post in the quote - such as you can see when I get quoted a couple of times in this thread. I can quote people perfectly normally, and nobody else quoting anybody else does this, so I don't think it's a browser problem - but even quoting myself loses the first letter of my post!

Try it on this post and see if it still happens.

All I've noticed is that - again, see in the link - it doesn't happen if the first character of my post isn't a letter, but part of a quote (or I assume any other) tag.

Can't say it's killing me, like, but it looks untidy and I'm curious! What's doing this?

Cheers smile
Have a few back to make it better - maybe the person quoting you is doing it to annoy you?

Bugeyeandy

12,600 posts

226 months

Friday 8th April 2011
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It does happen on that other thread when you click the quote button but not happening on this one. Very strange....

McSam

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6,753 posts

204 months

Saturday 9th April 2011
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Cheers, guys wink

Well, I thought it could be someone chopping bits out of my posts, but it seems to happen every time, and even when I do it myself, so that doesn't explain it.. Except it doesn't happen in this thread. I thought I'd ask since I can think of absolutely no reason at all!

Taita

7,995 posts

232 months

Saturday 9th April 2011
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McSam said:
heers, guys wink

Well, I thought it could be someone chopping bits out of my posts, but it seems to happen every time, and even when I do it myself, so that doesn't explain it.. Except it doesn't happen in this thread. I thought I'd ask since I can think of absolutely no reason at all!
Glad it is sorted smile

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 11th April 2011
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It's a bug that we are aware of, but have not managed to track down exactly what is causing it yet. It doesn't seem to be anything to do with either the user or the thread, but that's as far as we have got at the moment.

McSam

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6,753 posts

204 months

Wednesday 13th April 2011
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Mr Will said:
It's a bug that we are aware of, but have not managed to track down exactly what is causing it yet. It doesn't seem to be anything to do with either the user or the thread, but that's as far as we have got at the moment.
Alright - thanks for letting me know. For what it's worth, in this thread on my screen, the quote in the second post appears normal, the third post drops the A (but whether deliberately or not I dunno biggrin ), the fourth we can't count but the seventh also drops the A.

Does that look the same to you guys, or is it actually being generated differently by my browser?

vit4

3,507 posts

199 months

Wednesday 13th April 2011
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McSam said:
lright - thanks for letting me know. For what it's worth, in this thread on my screen, the quote in the second post appears normal, the third post drops the A (but whether deliberately or not I dunno biggrin ), the fourth we can't count but the seventh also drops the A.

Does that look the same to you guys, or is it actually being generated differently by my browser?
Just tried to quote you and sure enough, it dropped the A of Alright. Is this happening to other users? Not noticed it paperbag

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Wednesday 13th April 2011
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vit4 said:
Just tried to quote you and sure enough, it dropped the A of Alright. Is this happening to other users? Not noticed it paperbag
It is happening to everyone under certain circumstances, we've just not managed to spot what exactly influences it yet.