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Why does it happen that sometimes when I am looking at responses to posts, that I see most replies have three things in the right corner:

1. Quotable
2. quote
3. red flag.

Then, there are other times the “quotable” star picture is gone. Would that only happen if the post was red flagged? Is there any other reason why the “star” would not appear?

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ameliaearthlin offline Verified User (8 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 20 #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (4 minutes after post)

I think is cause someone… mayb even the person who wrote it marked it as quotable..

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~LazyDaze~ offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Help.com Volunteer Moderator Long Term User Shouts: 434 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (5 minutes after post)

The quotable is not there on unverfied users, when you click quotable that reply is linked to that persons profile and stays there untill it scrolls off after other quotable replies have been put there.
An unverfied user only as a tempory profile and not one that can be edited so there is no reason to save any quotes to it, there for no quotable option …

That ok?

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An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (6 minutes after post)

Also the same with people posting anon

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Charlie offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (21 minutes after post)

it’s so you can mark a reply as your favourite reply of all, quote someone else’s message like this:

ameliaearthlin wrote:
I think is cause someone… mayb even the person who wrote it marked it as quotable..

or you can report a reply if it’s offensive or something.

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Charlie offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (22 minutes after post)

The star is gone because it won’t allow you to mark your own reply as your favourite reply. Right now, on my last comment, the star is gone for me, but it will still be there on your screen.

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~LazyDaze~ offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Help.com Volunteer Moderator Long Term User Shouts: 434 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (23 minutes after post)

Charlie wrote:
The star is gone because it won’t allow you to mark your own reply as your favourite reply. Right now, on my last comment, the star is gone for me, but it will still be there on your screen.

Thats not how it works, you have no star because you are unverified as what I said in my last reply.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago (57 minutes after post)

Marking my own post as quotable would be so funny, HAHA.
I just saw an Anonymous that was quotable. look on this thread. http://help.com/post/311275-so-im-ner…
I’ve also seen the stars with “(2)” beside it, meaning that it was marked as quotable twice.

LazyDaze, if the user became verified at some point after writing a post, I wonder if the reply would then become quotable. I just had an idea. How long does it take somebody to become verified? If Charlie became verified, than we can check on his post.

None of this really matter, I was just curious. Thank you for answering. :)

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~LazyDaze~ offline Verified User (2 years, 5 months) Help.com Volunteer Moderator Long Term User Shouts: 434 #
An Undisclosed Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 hour, 5 minutes after post)

Yeah, the number changes to the amount of people that mark it quotable, I have one on my profile that has been marked 13 times and it has been there for about 2 years now O_O

When they become verified then I am sure the quotable function will appear but the test would be if charlie verified :D

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Charlie offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 hour, 13 minutes after post)

Internet explorer isn’t really liking me today, but i’ll try to get verified ASAP.

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Anonymous #
2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 hour, 18 minutes after post)

:) Then we’ll know. Thanks Charlie.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago (1 hour, 19 minutes after post)

2 yyrs and still getting replies? Wowzers! That must be a really good post!

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