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Moderators have access to a tool called “Notify User” which we can use to inform forum members of things like, for instance, if we have moved a post of theirs to another thread, or – as you say – if they have a post awaiting moderation. My guess would be that one of the other moderators saw a mention of you in a post that they thought might interest you, and so used “Notify User” to alert you to it to make sure you didn’t mean it. And, again guessing, “tagged” I should think meant nothing more than “mentioned here”.

Typo on my part, I meant to say, “to make sure you didn’t miss it,” not, “mean it”! Ooops!

Here’s what I think you’re doing wrong, Paul. When you’re quoting something, to reply you’re clicking directly below the quote, and the cursor it is showing you – which is indented – is still within the quote box. If you click towards the bottom of the reply box, another cursor will show – that will not be indented – which is outside the quote box.

Example (imagine this is the reply box):

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                  mja said

                  This is somebody’s quote, if you click directly below it you will get an indented cursor

                  (cursor 1) This is still within the quote box

(cursor 2) Clicking towards the bottom of the page will show an unindented cursor. Or, alternately, just move the cursor forward until it stops, and it should stop in this same position.

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When you quote, the quote includes two additional lines to write on, one inside the quote box, and one outside. At the moment it seems you are using the one inside the box. I hope this makes some sense, and that I haven’t just confused you.

I think I have already welcomed you in another thread, but welcome again in case I haven’t.

Hi, Paul. I just went into your last post in edit mode to see it as you’d typed it. You’ll see I have re-edited it to make it appear as you wanted. I found you had missed using the bottom cursor. I would recommend clicking at the very bottom of the reply box until you get used to it. If your reply to the quote is in line with the quote, you are still within the quote box. If you have found the right cursor point, your reply will appear closer to the left margin than the quote. I will see if I can come up with a clearer explanation.

Don’t worry, you’re not the only person struggling with this at the moment.

Paul R said
I just disabled RichText in my Options. Now I can’t bold or italicize words or titles, but at least I can quote the poster I wanted to, and isn’t that all I really need to do anyway?

That shouldn’t be the problem though. I don’t know what I’m using but I can still bold and italicize. Apologies for over-editing a little. I thought the paragraph you moved back into the quote was yours. Shoulda checked the post you were quoting first. I will investigate this further as you should not need to be disabling functions that I can use.

Can I ask what your OS and browser are?

Sky666 said

trcanberra said
Now I am having the site telling me that a new post was made 3781 seconds ago, rather than the number of minutes.

On my side I’m having the site telling I posted stuff an hour ago when I just posted it. 

I had one of your posts show up as unread about a half dozen times even after I refreshed the browser, closed it and opened it, hit the computer etc. etc.