Anoither minor gripe about LiveJournal ....

[unixronin]

...is the "Quote" button.  Sure, it's a good idea.  But you can never tell quite what it's going to do.  If you select at least one complete paragraph of a post and click Quote, it's a fairly safe bet it'll blockquote it.  But if you select only part of a paragraph to quote, sometimes it'll blockquote, sometimes it'll put it in italics, sometimes it'll enclose it in double-quotes ... you click and take pot luck.

It'd be a lot more useful if it behaved consistently, and more useful still if you could define that behavior.

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[otherbill.livejournal.com]

It'd be a lot more useful if it behaved consistently, and more useful still if you could define that behavior.

I didn't even realize LJ had a "quote" button until I read this. An' to think I've been doing it by hand all these years...

(Then again, given what you've written, I'll continue to do so.)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I tend to either let it do its quoting thing, then edit the tags to consistency, or ... yeah ... just do it by hand.