A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.
Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line
> This is a quote
should become
This is a quote
And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling
> 1
> 2
> 3
1
2
3
I had no idea it was different for new Reddit, I never touched that interface except to hurriedly find my preferences and set them back to Old. :)
And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:
>>> hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to speak with you again
More
Lines
hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to speak with you again
More
Lines
Unless I’m wrong and this isn’t actually working
Hmm well that looks like it worked too well
> test
With
Several
Lines
test
With
Several
Lines
Nah, multi-line is just
> line 1
line 2
line 3
line 1
line 2
line 3
You only need multiple > if you want paragraphs:
> paragraph 1
> paragraph 2
paragraph 1
paragraph 2
You don’t need multiple unless you want to quote paragraphs, see my comment further down