Tutorial on using Quote

We've all seen it lately: users quoting other users. That's not a surprise and should be expected when someone is responding to someone else's question in a previous post. But what shouldn't be expected is full quotes of a post (an example would be Indy's full quote of an IRC log I posted), or nesting multiple user responses when only the last one need be quoted.

In order to help out everyone's eyes, I am authoring this post/rant which should teach people the basic BBCode command of Quote. I will be using a recent post that skywalker has made. My public apologies to skywalker. Thus follows his post:

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HostileToy wrote:

Min wrote:

wonka wrote:

my question is....

does MaddMaxx=son of HostileToy

:D

fuck no.

Min

More like FUCKING HELL NO!!! My oldest son is only 4 and has more intelligence in his baby toe then Madd Maxx has in his entire body. I feel sick now, ugh thanks a fucking lot wonka ? excuse me while I go puke ? a lot.

now now, be nice

Now, sky has a short response of "now now, be nice" which was directed at HostileToy. Did he really need to quote what started it all? Not really, as you should assume that as long as what you're quoting is within the thread, users have probably read it and don't need to read the whole situation again. A simple quote of HostileToy stating "More like FUCKING HELL NO!!!" would have sufficed as sky's reply was not terribly in depth in relation to what was said by HostileToy.

A good rule of quoting is to only quote what is relevant and to state who said it. For instance, if a user posted a list of questions and I wanted to answer them, I could quote each question and answer it then move on to the next one.

A reason of bad quoting could be because you don't understand the BBCode tags and logic behind them. Very simple. I shall use an example to help everyone out.

I shall use an example.

This would put "I shall use an example" in a quote box as seen in the above example. An actual quote is flanked by two "tags." Here it's

and

. The first one lets the program know that we're starting a quote. The second one with a slash in front of it lets the program know that that is the end of the quote and anything between those two should be formatted appropriately. If you wish to say who you are quoting simply use

nickname wrote:

where nickname is the name of whom you wish to quote.

Note: the above is not quoted because I disabled BBCode so that I could use brackets without confusing people further.