Given only this image and no further internet connection or information, can you be certain that >>555643719 is quoting >>555641670?This is on-topic because it concerns 4chan's code, and "images depicting the technology of past, present, and future are all welcome here."
>>108008365no
As long as there's no funny business, no non-default extensions, stuff like that, yes, you can be certain. The reply on the first post can only be the reply beneath it, because those replies don't show up cross-thread without extensions, and from the footer you can tell that's the last post in that thread.
>>108008365Yes.>Links to posts from other threads are underlined>The link in 555643719 is not underlined, therefore it is replying to a post in the same thread>555641670 has a reply, and there is only one post in the thread after it
I have returned. The answer isssssNo. You can't be certain. And I will try to demonstrate why if I can time this right.>>108009300
Whaaaaaaat?! Posts can quote posts that are downthread from them. It is entirely possible that >>555641670 is quoted from upthread and >>555643719 posts some arbitrary post earlier in the thread.
Shit. Let me try this again>>108009315
>>108008365The top post is the second to last post in the thread and has one reply, meaning the last post must be replying to it. Though the wording of this puzzle could be a trick, since there are no "quotes" in the post. No quotation marks, greentext, or direct repetition of the text in the prior post. So if you actually meant quotation and not reply, then no, there is now way to be certain that it "is" quoting it, since it isn't.tl;dr its a reply, but not an actual quote, in case this is a trick question
I'll prove it this time>>108009350The captcha is annoying but this is a real thing.
>>108009306See, the reply isn't counted in that other thread. Cross thread replies aren't shown in the reply count.
>>108009326You are correct but that's not what I mean to imply. You can quote a post that comes later
I'll do it efficiently one last time. >>108009395>>108009396>>108009397>>108009398>>108009399
I missed it again because of captchas but it's real. Take this post for examplehttps://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/11718563/#q11719998it's quoted by another post downstream. Anyways just an interesting quirk in 4chan.
>>108009420another post upstream*
>>108009349How does that apply to op's image though. You can see that the top post has 1 reply, meaning that there must be a post replying to it underneath it. So even if the bottom post could otherwise be replying to a future post, that one reply on the original post means that the bottom post must be replying to it.
>>108009537>>108009420Wait no, I see how it applies. Still, I highly doubt anyone aside from (you) knew about this, so it probably isn't the answer Op was looking for. That is assuming you aren't Op laying out trivia questions and disguising them as logic puzzles.
>>108008365it's possible that somebody wrote the post number before it came to be but it's incredibly unlikely
>>108009301Yeah obviously you can type a post number that hasn't been made yet, and when it is made it'll link.
>>108008389There is one hole in this: somebody earlier in the thread could have replied to a post that did not yet exist. Thus, the reply to >>555641670 could have been posted before >>555641670
>>108009277This raises the question: HOW can one time this right? Is it even possible?
