"Quoting" other users

[AB Editor]

Morning,

I'm hoping to have a way for us to "quote" one another today.

Questions:

1. How would you like the quotes to look? Italics? Bold? A different colour? All suggestions will be considered.

2. How would you like to implement it? We need a trigger to tell the system "this is a quote". This trigger will be typed before and after the quote so the system to knows where to begin and end. Some options:

{quote}message to be "quoted"{quote}
[Q]message to be "quoted"[Q]
*message to be "quoted"*

It is possible we could put some pretty quote marks around the quote. Who would be in favour of this?

Maybe like this:

"Quoting"

[boxtops]

Do you mean the way (at the moment) people put // round each side of a quote from another ABer earlier in the thread? (quite why, I don't know, " does me OK)

I suggest a small Gnome at each end....

[sunny-dave]

Do you mean an souped-up reply option which automatically picks up the quoted text ?

Where I've seen this it just seems to lead to everything being quoted and re-quoted all the time and makes the discussion threads very unwieldly. People also seem to be quite cunning at introducing slight 'mis-quotes' into what looks like an official reprise of a previous post ...

Or do you just mean a slightly easier select/cut/paste process ?

[naomi24]

I put // around other people's quotes simply because I can't think of a better way of indicating that it is someone else's quote. Speech marks can too easily be 'lost'.

I can't remember how the bold and italics facilities worked before, but I know it was simple and effective. Just replacing that would suit me fine.

[SlackAlice]

Italics, different colour, not bold and just the standard quote marks "......."
No pictures at either front or end.

[ummmm]

Make it bold and keep it very simple [Q] would probably be best.

[rojash]

I like the way quotes appear in Skype chat, with a big grey quote mark at the left and the quote indented and delineated by a vertical line

[rockyracoon]

Would it be possible to mention who's actually being quoted, on a big thread you can loose momentum if you don't know who's said what. Doe's that make sense?

[anotheoldgit]

Good morning AB Editor

Italics in a different colour would be fine and your suggestion of
*message to be "quoted"* as the trigger, for all fellow ABer's quotes.

Could there then be a different way also of marking a copy & paste passage from a source i.e. newspaper etc?

[Frank97]

I quite like the way these people do it, seems neat and tidy to me.
http://i791.photobuck...7/D97x7/Capture-3.png

[rockyracoon]

D97, that's the best way I think, I use anther forum that uses a similar method to this.

[MarkRae]

>> I'm hoping to have a way for us to "quote" one another today.

> I like the way quotes appear in Skype chat

In days of yore, it would have been done as above, with no need for anything cleverer.

[Maydup]

Q before and after and italics Q

is a novel idea. Since there's a concern that speech marks "will be lost" and //these are not popular// the Q's would at least stand for "Quote".

*this stands out but doesn't explain that the statement is a quotation.

[AB Editor]

I mean italics :)

[ladybirder]

I don't mind how it's done but we need to know whose quote it is. It's really annoying when you have to backtrack to find out.

[sp1814]

If you could reintroduce italics for general use, and emphasis that would be great.

For quoting other AB users, a different colour would be helpful, especially if the act of cutting and pasting automatically changed the colour (to say, red).

[Zeuhl]

I think care should be taken that the quote doesn't take prominence over the new post.

For example, if the quote was in bold and the new post not. As the quote is just introducing or illustrating the new post italics would be more appropriate.

D9's reference is neat, but however it is done, the new post must always be the most prominent element.

[daffy654]

In another forum I visit there is a quote link at the top of every post, if you click that it puts the text of that message into your own message box in a greyed out section with the person quoted name. You the enter your own text beneath that before posting.

[daffy654]

Example:
http://www.ffxiah.com...s-in-salvage/#1843915

The subject matter of linked post will make zero sense to anyone but gaming geeks. lol :)

[Nibble]

Like this http://a0.twimg.com/p...834/gnomeHat_mini.jpg

[bazwillrun]

quotes in full should be shown in nested boxes with poster name and date.
just look at a gazillion other forums