I don’t know what to tell you (this is going sideways) but what I fixed is merely that my screenshot was improperly framed and caught the bottom of the post that seems to be confusing you. (Just the smiley; thus the illusion. Sorry.)
I see your quote:
(The only one I see from you throughout the thread though. If you have more than this one, then I don’t see it.)
And it seems we are not out of the labyrinth yet.
A)
The image you just posted clearly shows the quote box in my funny-post. So now I don’t know what you mean when you say the quotes in posts are disappearing. By your own screenshot you are seeing the one you earlier claimed had gone missing. (Unless, heaven forfend, that screenshot looks very different to you than it does to me!) Color me confused.
B)
You earlier knew of two posts of mine. You claimed you could not see my quote back in either of two of my posts. [The next line below is a quote back:]
[Okay, back to me.] I brought up the second of my posts in order to point out that my second post (which you refer to above) did not have any quotation in it.
You are always on top of things VV, so I am fearing right now that I may have gone a bit daft.
Thanks for clarifying that by ‘eats blockquotes’ you really do just mean dis-quoting them, not vanishing entire.
I mean I quote someone, like I am doing here now, and that just when I am about done, or right after, the quote goes missing from my post. I have to go get it back and paste it once more in my post.
For the rest, just forget it. We are not understanding each other, and it ain’t improving 
You talked of posts, I took a screenshot of those, sayin I did not see any quote in there. (I thought you meant there should be.) No other posts involved. That’s it.
They vanish (if I remember properly). But look, it happened to me about three times only. And I blamed myself for it, thinking user error and not giving it much further thoughts afterwards. Until @November_Sierra brought it up.
So don’t take my word for it. (Or at least not too much. )
Meh! Don’t worry about it. 
(It takes two to get there…)
But thanks for the compliment, though.
Just had this happen to me, on the “What’s happened to the forum app startup?” thread. When I went back to edit my post, the quote was there, both in the editor and in the preview, but doesn’t show in the post on the forum.
Mark
This entirely matches the described behaviour above that is known. Since I previously described it in a more constructive way rather than being extremely precise about the exact behaviour being observed, I will reiterate:
When I go into that thread and click the edit history on your posts, I see the system doing exactly what has been described:
Now, there has since been conjecture that there are other cases, but conjecture is all I have seen, nothing concrete (again you can grab a link to a post by clicking the relative date stamp). I suspect though I just haven’t explained it very well, as I don’t think there are any other internal mechanisms about this.
It’s funny, because I thought the forum even warns you about this in an overlay over the preview area. But maybe that’s one of those things where if you dismiss it, it stops bugging you and presumes you got the message.
Is there a way to re-enable it?
I don’t see anything about it, or that warnings can be permanently dismissed, so I might just be remembering things incorrectly.
At any rate, I do remain interested in links to any events not matching the above described behaviour.
Will let you know for sure.
(And this here post is actually a test at the same time. )
I can appreciate that preventing the wholesale quoting of a long post such as yours—and there are many longer ones in other threads—is desirable.
However, in a sense this is a draconian hammer cracking a modest nut. In each of my posts, the texts quoted were merely one or two lines (the first was a twenty word sentence with an emoticon).
Mark
I find myself in alignment with their design decision on this one. I just don’t see any good reason to restate the entirety of the post right above the response, because the post is already right above the response.
Plus it makes things more awkward for people using screen readers as well. You’ve got to sit through 40 words being spoken aloud when 20 would have done.
I don’t know, just makes sense to me.
