Guidelines
Please note that these are just guidelines. We won't punish anyone for mistakes and in certain situations it might be even advised to deviate from these guidelines.
- if someone uses inappropriate language, report this to the moderators, but do not respond in the thread itself and especially not with a quote of the specific text.
- if you reply to something, place the quote above your reply.
- reading the same thing twice gets boring, for all of us. Therefore:
- do not quote entire messages. Only quote the sentences that you reply to. If you reply to a whole post, just quote the key sentences. We'll all know what post you reply to. This also means, that you should omit "non-contributing" things like greetings. Please note that it might be better to post multiple quote-blocks instead of just one, when a post covers multiple sub-subjects.
- try to avoid quoting quotes. In e-mails, it is common to attach the previous mails, but on a forum the previous posts are automatically displayed when replying to a thread.
- never quote images, unless they were posted a few pages back, or posted a while ago.
- if you reply to the post directly above you, do not quote at all, unless it is a long post where you may apply #1 to
How to quote?
Beside each post, you will find a couple of buttons. One of which is this one . Clicking this button will bring you to the reply-form, where you will find the entire post between quote tags. You can edit the quote block (deleting sentences, following the guidelines above) as you edit any other text. If you would like to create a quote yourself (e.g.. if you quote from some external website/book), you can click the Quote button above the write-field. An example of a quote block:
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[quote="Gijs"]Beside each post, you will find a couple of buttons.[/quote]
shows up as:
Gijs wrote:Beside each post, you will find a couple of buttons.
When attaching a name to the quote, make sure there are " around the name! Optionally you can add a link to the respective post by appending the post id, like this (happens automatically when clicking ):
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[quote="Gijs";p=92471]Optionally you can add a link to the respective post[/quote]
which shows up as:
Gijs wrote in Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:45 am:Optionally you can add a link to the respective post
You are encouraged to use the Preview button to check your message before posting it.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation! Together we make this forum a pleasant place for all of us.