Reddit is a popular social media content aggregator platform that boasts tens of millions of users monthly. Users make posts on different topic-based communities where other users interact with their posts. During the interactions, users may see the need to refer to another’s posts. Reddit has a functionality that enables you to quote the specific part of another’s post that you want to discuss. This article will teach you how to use and leverage the functionality.
Quoting is essential for many reasons despite being able to reply to a user’s post directly. One of such importance is that it helps you avoid ambiguity in your response as the OP and other users can easily determine what aspect of the OP’s comments you are referring to.
Using Quote Format on the Reddit Desktop
There is no automatic way to quote a user’s posts or comments on the desktop version of Reddit, so you have to do it manually. The first step is identifying the post or comment you want to respond to with the quote. After that, click on “reply” below the post, among other options, including “Reply,” “Give Award,” “Share,” “Report,” “Save,” and “Follow.”
Clicking on reply will reveal the text box for you to reply to the comment. You can do either of the following steps before the other, nevertheless, go to the section you want to quote on the comment and copy it as you would any other text on your PC.
After that, click on the three-dot icon below the textbox next to other formatting tools, and this would reveal other options, including the icon for quoting, which is represented by one-half of the pair of quotation marks “. Clicking on this icon will bring up a small segment in the text box where you can paste the text you copied earlier to quote. The small segment will begin with a small vertical grey line where your quoted text will appear.
After the line has appeared, simply paste the text you have copied, which you want to quote, into the area directly in front of the grey line. After quoting the relevant text, you may also want to include your insight as well as the reason for quoting the text. You can do this either by clicking the ‘Enter” button on your PC thrice or simply directing your cursor out of the quoted segment of the text bar.
After expressing yourself in the text box and ensuring that what you have typed correctly passes your intention, click on “Reply” to respond to the comment with your quotes.
Alternatively, a much simpler way is to highlight the relevant section you intend to quote as if to copy it, then click on “Reply.” This will automatically create the quoted segment behind the grey line and input the highlighted text behind it.
Using Quote Format on the Reddit Desktop – Old Reddit Design
For the most part, quoting on the old Reddit design is similar to the new design; however, the end is where the steps depart. Like the new design, you identify the post or comment you want to respond to with the quote. After that, click on “reply” below the post, among other options, including “permalink,” “embed,” “save,” “report,” “give award,” and “reply.”
Clicking “Reply” here will also reveal the text box for you to reply to the comment. Similarly, you can do either of the following steps before the other; nevertheless, go to the section you want to quote on the comment and copy it as you would any other text on your PC.
Unlike the new design, there are fewer options beneath the text box, only including “Content policy,” “Formatting,” and “Help”; click on “Formatting” to display a series of explanations you can employ to format your text. Remember that the explanations only describe what you need to do rather than do it, so you do not need to click on formatting once you know how.
As the explanation describes, you need to input the “>” where you want to place the quoted text. After you input it, paste the text you want to quote that you have copied. You can use the enter key to enter a new (regular) paragraph where you can discuss your insights or why you have quoted the text. After entering your comments, click “Save” to post your quoted comment.
However, just like in the new design, you can also quote the relevant text by simply highlighting and clicking “Reply.”
Using Quote Format on the Reddit Mobile App
Quoting a comment on the Reddit mobile app is similar to the old Reddit design; however, copying text takes a much different approach. After identifying the comment, you intend to reply to and quote from, click on the three-dot icon among the icons below the post. This will reveal several options, including “Share comment,” “Subscribe to comment,” “Save comment,” etc. Click “Copy text” below “Save comment” to copy the text.
After this, quoting the text is similar to the Reddit old design; you need to input the “>” where you want to place the quoted text. After you input it, paste the text you want to quote that you have copied. You can use the enter key to enter a new (regular) paragraph where you can discuss your insights or why you have quoted the text. After entering your comments, click on reply to send the comment.
Using Quote Format on the Reddit Mobile Website
Quoting text is very similar to the mobile application versions on the mobile website. However, because it is web-based, you can copy the text you intend to quote by simply long pressing the relevant text, as you would any other text you copy on your phone. After copying the text, the steps are the same.
Input the “>” where you want to place the quoted text. After you input it, paste the text you want to quote that you have copied. You can use the enter key to enter a new (regular) paragraph where you can discuss your insights or why you have quoted the text. After entering your comments, click on “Add comment” to send the comment.
