"...what you posted in the OP isn't the "quote feature"...." PP #4
The above quotation, please note the open & close quotation marks which BY DEFINITION marks it as a quotation, despite that it is not in this post w/ "the quote feature". It's in bold text, to distinguish it from my reply.
To clear up the confusion on "the quote feature" terminology:
Here is an image of the way my post appears on my UHD display screen:
On my display it's UNMISTAKABLY a quotation.
" even though the quote has no attribution." N #5
That's false.
The attribution is "Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon". That's an attribution.
The problem with your assertion in #6 U9 is your use of the definite article "the".
There are more than one way to have the system code a quotation for special highlight.
One could do it the way my gramma, and PP #4 would fantasize.
I've done that before.
But I prefer to use "the quote feature" by typing the code myself. It provides better control of MY post INCLUDING the quotation, as well as the attributions.
"...what you posted in the OP isn't the "quote feature"...." PP #4
How could you possibly be more wrong ??
It may not be to your exquisite ecstasy. I can't begin to tell you how devastated I am about that.
"...the fact that you don't even know what it is, is vastly amusing......" PP #4
Talk to yourself much? Or is this just a rare exception?
[These] Pictures don't lie.
I believe I've been using "the quote feature" since the first day I posted here.
So a review on English:
be aware of whether the definite article (the), or the indefinite article (a) is being used, and when each both is, and is not appropriate.
"Then that would make it a "QUOTE" and not an example of the "QUOTE FEATURE"." U9 #6
"Quote" is a verb. "Quotation" is a noun. And EITHER method of using "the quote feature" is using "the quote feature".