I keep getting errors when quoting

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husker_99

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after awhile i get an error that says the opening quotes does not match the closing quotes even though i didn't touch anything. I even count the opening and closing quotes and it always matches. any help appreciated.

 
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OK, let's try to sort this out. BBcode will not get processed if enclosed them in

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tags, so next time you get an instance of this, copy and paste the entire post between a set of those tags, and post it here. Like this:

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[quote][quote]test[/quote]
Would help us isolate the source of the problem - if it's your end, or software end. I know you say it's not your end, but this would be proof since we could then reproduce the error.

Also, let us know if you're posting from a computer or mobile device.

 
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I had this same problem on a post I had with several quotes. I changed one of the sets from [ quote ] ... [ /quote] (without the spaces, of course) to just a " ... " and it worked fine. I tried to change them back to the coded quotes but it wouldn't work. Never could figure it out so I left one of them as " ... " and went on with life.

 
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How many quotes were in the reply? We changed to number of maximum quotes in a reply to five recently. If there was a string of more than five, maybe that's what caused the problem.

Can you tell us which post this was?

 
That is exactly it! I can't believe I didn't think of that.

It won't allow the post to go through if this error occurs, so I don't think pointing to already-made posts will be much help. But knapp nailed it: you can't have more than 5 quotes in a post.

Just think about trimming a few. Quote pyramids make threads hard to read.

 
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I'd have to find it for sure but I bet mine was more than five.

I try to cut it down to just what I'm replying to but in this case I believe I was trying to break the post I was quoting up into several chunks to make it clear which part I was replying to.

Thanks.

 
Yeah that happened to me too. I quoted a long chain of quotes and got that error message, even though there were equal amount of quote codes. So I just cut it down to the last person who I was replying to and it worked, so that probably is what your problem was.

 
knapplc said:
How many quotes were in the reply? We changed to number of maximum quotes in a reply to five recently. If there was a string of more than five, maybe that's what caused the problem.

Can you tell us which post this was?
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Can't remember the post but i didn't know you changed the max. quotes. probably what is was. thanks.

 
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