Its a million time better to break up a person's post and respond outside the quoted areas than it is to put your own words, even if
bolded, into a quote that's attributed to someone else. Lets say you wanted to end up with something like this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by PatsFanInVa
By the way, if this needs to go to Religion, I am okay with that.
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something that agrees or disagrees with the above here
Quote:
Originally Posted by PatsFanInVa
Given the title of the thread,
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more something
Quote:
Originally Posted by PatsFanInVa
I figured we're pretty much still not straying from the history/politic of religion.
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and even more something
Quote:
Originally Posted by PatsFanInVa
But I'm glad to take it elsewhere if anybody feels we are significantly straying from politics and into religion.
PFnV
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and one last something here.
The correct/non annoying way to do this is to
1) hit the qoute button rather than the respond button. Everyone seems to have figured this out, but the next part is tricky so PAY ATTENTION.
2) Look at what the software gives you. You'll notice that you get the post to be quoted surrounded by things called quote tags. One at the beginning that will look like this:
[QUOT=PatsFanInVa;452674]
I changed the spelling of quote to quot so you could see what the tag looks like. That's right, you don't HAVE to hit the quote button to quote someone. You just have to use the proper code.
You also have one at the end that looks like this:
[/QUOT]
Same thing with the spelling. You don't have to remember or even type that code. Copy/Paste is your friend here. Just Copy the beginning tag and the end tag and paste them wherever you want to 'cut in' so to speak and write whatever you want in between. If you do it right, the quoted post and your words will end up looking something like this in the reply window:
[QUOT=PatsFanInVa;452674]By the way, if this needs to go to Religion, I am okay with that.[/QUOT]
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[QUOT=PatsFanInVa;452674]
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[/QUOT]
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[QUOT=PatsFanInVa;452674]
I figured we're pretty much still not straying from the history/politic
of religion.
[/QUOT]
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
[QUOTE=PatsFanInVa;452674]But I'm glad to take it elsewhere if anybody feels we are significantly straying from politics and into religion.
PFnV[/QUOT]
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Once again I changed the spelling of quote to quot so everyone could see what goes in the reply window. The XXXXX's represent what you'd want to say. Just remember the format. First comes the opening quote tag, then there's the individual part of the post you want to respond to, the the closing quote tag, then your own words and then simply repeat to the end.
Many people struggle with who said what if you put your own words into the middle of someone else's. Its even more annoying and hard to understand when you put stuff in regular type at the end. You can also count on someone else coming along and quoting the whole F'ing thing and making it entirely impossible for anyone to understand what anyone else said. Flame wars are started this way.
Everyone's consideration in this matter is greatly appreciated.
Stop annoying me!!!
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