This was also my problem yesterday. Simply copying the text from the post in a lock topic will not copy its format in bbcode.
This is very time consuming especially when you are making or posting very important notice in a thread or just lazy to edit the entire text with same format of the quoted post.
This is very time consuming especially when you are making or posting very important notice in a thread or just lazy to edit the entire text with same format of the quoted post.
There is a fairly easy workaround for that. Hit the "quote" button on any post, e.g. a post in the thread that you're posting in. Replace post ID in the URL (find quote=MMM and replace the MMM) with the ID of the post you want to quote from the locked thread. You'll get the bbcode. To complete the quote you'll also need to replace the whole link (topic=TTT.msgMMM#msgMMM) in the quote tag. Author and timestamp are good.
A bit of a hassle but worked fine the few times that I needed it and I wouldn't want to postpone the new forum software by 3 more years while the OP's suggestion gets implemented here
