# Quotes that start new topic do not work

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-that-start-new-topic-do-not-work/58845
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 10, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-that-start-new-topic-do-not-work/58845 "2017-03-10T19:34:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-that-start-new-topic-do-not-work/58845/1 "2017-03-10T19:34:44Z")

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I’m seeing some very strange behaviour on Try when trying to use Quotes in a closed topic in order to reply with a new topic:

[https://erlend-sh.github.io/erlend-new/discourse-weirdquotes.mp4](https://erlend-sh.github.io/erlend-new/discourse-weirdquotes.mp4)

- In some topics the quote isn’t grabbed at all
- In other topics (just the one that I know of so far) I’m somehow grabbing some text form i-don’t-even-know-where.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-that-start-new-topic-do-not-work/58845/2 "2017-03-10T19:39:21Z")

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This feels related to

> [@Quote button on closed topics still does not behave as expected](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-button-on-closed-topics-still-does-not-behave-as-expected/57840):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480/11): I was trying to reply using selecting text and pressing the quote button, but the selected text was not appearing in the editor. Turns out the topic was closed and I was creating a new topic. I found a few other threads about this and they all suggest that everything is working as expected now, but I am still puzzled why I get a quote button that does not actually quote the selected text…

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quotes-that-start-new-topic-do-not-work/58845/3 "2017-03-10T22:19:41Z")

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