Forum software glitch or what...????

[justperry]

I got a MR notification that someone replied to my post, see first screenshot.
Clicked on the link and brought me to the post.
I never encountered what I found next, the poster replied to a post which wasn't mine, yet I got a notification, did the
poster mess up or is this a forum software glitch.

1. Is the Notification I got
2. Is the Post with my name
3. Is the post linked to if you press the justperry link in davidalan's post


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[Boyd01]

My *guess* would be that @Davidalan made a mistake copying/pasting while when editing that quote. I don't think the forum software would cause such an error, and it also wouldn't prevent someone from accidentally pasting content into a quote. Perhaps he can shed some light on this?

[edit]It is possible, however, that this could be an example of database corruption. I moderate on another site that migrated from a couple other platforms to Xenforo several years ago. Recently I saw an example there of posts attributed to a user who wasn't even a member at the time they were made. We figured that was the likely explanation.

 

[Davidalan]

Sorry about that, I don’t know what happed. I was responding by adding a link to a thread on USMC dock and I must of had this open. Again sorry

 

[arn]

Maybe multi quote mistake? Those are saved across posts

 

[Boyd01]

Yes, I have been bitten by that one myself!

 

[NoBoMac]

The citation has been fixed.

 

[Davidalan]

Thank you all for understanding.

 

[Davidalan]

I do have a question: when I post a link I use the link icon and paste the url and some time some text. It shows in the post as a line of text in blue and is a live link. Some people post links and it appears as whole version like a little bit of a page with small image. Question is how do they get that?

 

[NoBoMac]

If you just paste the link, you get the box. Like thus:

When to change Apple Pencil 2 tip?

Good morning everybody! I own an AP 2 bought in october 2019 and I’m asking myself: when I will need to change the tip? Any suggestion?

forums.macrumors.com

And here it is via the link icon.

 

[Davidalan]

Thank you and perfect. Now as a 70 year old I hope I can remember to just do a direct paste