Because, as
@azdadu said, the post is too long to be quoted, that's why the 'quote' option is greyed out entirely, as in completely not available.
So you go and highlight a part of your post, for example all the stuff before the first image. A little inlay popup with "quote | reply" appears on your screen if the portion of text is of quotable length. You click "reply" and the quote appears in the reply box at the bottom of the page.
Then you click the "[ ]" (toggle BB code) button in the editor and copy everything to the thread you want to quote your post in.
Raw it should look like this:
[QUOTE="Zeus Blue Thunder, post: 17349945, member: 164800"]
Just a short one. Wanted to post it ASAP on the Kiwi Farms but couldn't because of the incident.
Toys for Tots was a PR stunt by Caden. He gave Chris $250 to spend on some shit and get some positive karma:
- the toys are all boxed. Chris never keeps boxes, or at least keeps them in the hoard.
- plushies look untainted by Chris
- Many of the Transformers toys are Walmart exclusives (Retro Starscream, Decepticon Crasher)
in total, I suck at toy identification so I did some googling and comparing:
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Or as an actual quote: