what is the "quote comment" for / how to respond to comments?

[magentamaraschino]

sorry if this sounds dumb but I received my first comment and don't know what the "quote" button is for.  How should it be used?  And how do I respond to comments since there is not reply button? again, I apologize if this is alr answered somewhere else!! 

[Melooon]

Normally if you are replying to the post/comment immediately before your post, you just add a new comment/post - its not like reddit where there are sub-threads of comments, its just one stream.

If you really want to make sure the person you are replying to will read your response, you can use the @mention system, that will ping them to let them know you want their attention.

How should it be used?

Quotes are for referencing a specific small part of a post/comment, particularly if you are replying to a long post and you think people wont understand exactly the thing you are responding to.

I apologize if this is alr answered somewhere else!! 

No problem, its second nature to some people, but its understandably less normal if you did not grow up with forums!

[MediocreMetastasis]

You could use the quote feature for when you want to respond to a specific reply instead of the topic in general or to respond to a really old reply in a large thread kinda like if you want to reply to a discord message that is buried by a bunch of other messages.

For example

Question unrelated to the topic

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