Quoting Etiquette. What annoys you more?

[allmycats]

[QUOTE=Karen;2185788]To everyone - editing someone's text that you quote is completely verboten - forbidden. Completely and utterly. Taking simple sentences out of context can also be misleading and rude.QUOTE]

so does this mean we are suppoed to use the whole quote and NOT edit it? sorry I am just not sure...

and speaking of quotes...what am I doing wrong? why do my posts have the "quote" word but others seem to have their quotes in a box in their posts??

[Lady's Human]

Your post above is missing the [/ before then end of the quote tag.

[Karen]

To everyone - editing someone's text that you quote is completely verboten - forbidden. Completely and utterly. Taking simple sentences out of context can also be misleading and rude.

so does this mean we are suppoed to use the whole quote and NOT edit it? sorry I am just not sure...

and speaking of quotes...what am I doing wrong? why do my posts have the "quote" word but others seem to have their quotes in a box in their posts??

No, that means that you cannot use a quote but change its contents - like quoting something that says "then I heard Mr Smith say" and changing it
to be "then I heard Mr Poopyhead say"

do you understand?

It is certainly fine to quote just one sentence, if that is what you are responding to. In fact that's the best thing to do in many circumstances.

[allmycats]

ok I got it, yeah I understand, thank you!

[Asiel]

I went with turkey bacon - I tried it only once and got sick and wasted my whole breakfast.

[Catherinedana]

The FLock votes for turkey bacon.

I don't eat bacon. . .it gives me massive heart burn.

So does excessive quoting.

Cheers!

[pomtzu]

.it gives me massive heart burn.

So does excessive quoting.

Yup - reading it once is usually more than enough!