# Regression: quoting text from a closed topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902 "2020-02-28T17:23:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/1 "2020-02-28T17:23:04Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480/11):
> [@Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480/11):
>
> everywhere on Discourse you can select text and a button to quote will appear. Not on closed topics
I think this _used_ to be fixed but has regressed now:
I encountered this in the wild as a normal user on [elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/) trying to do normal user things.
(attn: @eviltrout)
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/2 "2020-03-02T17:32:12Z")
@supermathie I asked in chat but I think it got lost: was this the result of you disabling a user preference for highlight quoting?
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/3 "2020-03-02T17:32:45Z")
It was not. Quoting was enabled and worked on open topics on both sites.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/4 "2020-03-03T02:23:26Z")
Can we repro this @jomaxro? Does feel like a bug and a regression to me?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/8 "2020-03-04T13:12:51Z")
I can repro, yes. Quote button isn’t appearing for non-staff users in closed topics. Old discussion for reference: [Quote post from closed topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-post-from-closed-topic/26480)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/9 "2020-03-04T16:48:42Z")
Can we get this fixed and backported @eviltrout?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/13 "2020-03-06T00:12:34Z")
Sent in [FIX: Allow quoting from a closed topic while writing a reply by riking · Pull Request #9121 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9121) !
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 3:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/14 "2020-03-06T03:47:22Z")
Noticed another quoting regression. The quote button does not appear within `[quote]` blocks. It does work in quote blocks that include a username, like `[quote=jomaxro]`, as well as in `>` blocks.
**Works:**
```plaintext
[quote=jomaxro]
Lorem Ipsum
[/quote]
```
```plaintext
> Lorem Ipsum
```
**Doesn’t work:**
```plaintext
[quote]
Lorem Ipsum
[/quote]
```
Let me know if you’d rather have this split into a dedicated topic.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/15 "2020-03-06T05:51:35Z")
Sorry, what are you reporting here? I am unclear.
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### Author:  [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/16 "2020-03-06T05:56:30Z")
I think he meant that the quote button does not pop up if you post `[quote]` blocks manually without a username. Try quoting this:
> [@](#):
>
> Lorem Ipsum
The Quote button does not show up:
* * *
On the other hand, it shows up as expected when username is added. Try quoting this:
> [@jomaxro](#):
>
> Lorem Ipsum
You’ll see that the quote button shows up:
* * *
This should only affect users that type in quote blocks manually.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/17 "2020-03-06T07:14:34Z")
This is probably causing a false positive on the nested-quote-quoting-misattribution protection.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/18 "2020-03-06T19:08:25Z")
Or, it’s just straight-up throwing a Javascript exception 🙂
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9132](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/9132)
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/regression-quoting-text-from-a-closed-topic/142902/19 "2020-03-08T01:41:21Z")