Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: August 8, 2025, 2:00 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Please don't abuse the [quote] system
#7
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system
What if your obsession for proper spelling and grammar is the reason for changing someone's quoted material? In such cases the content is not truly changed; it still says the exact same thing but with proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and so forth. And with the link back to the original anyone can confirm that it says the exact same thing. I typically do not indicate when I have done this to the quoted material, if only because I am well known to do it to practically every quoted material. Moreover, when the person's point can be made more clearly by rearranging or adding words, I do so but indicate having done so by placing the changed wording within square brackets (thus indicating that it is my rewording of their statement).
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Ryft - May 7, 2012 at 7:10 pm
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Ryft - May 7, 2012 at 9:32 pm
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Cinjin - May 9, 2012 at 10:28 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 10:33 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 11:29 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Annik - May 7, 2012 at 7:17 pm
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 10:14 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 10:39 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Ryft - May 9, 2012 at 11:05 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 10:59 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Shell B - May 9, 2012 at 11:04 am
RE: Please don't abuse the [quote] system - by Cinjin - May 9, 2012 at 11:22 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  PSA: PLEASE READ BrianSoddingBoru4 117 26951 June 28, 2023 at 7:59 am
Last Post: brewer
  Please Congratulate… BrianSoddingBoru4 28 10906 August 23, 2021 at 11:36 pm
Last Post: Jackalope
  New Theme (Please Test & Give Feedback) Tiberius 102 22296 September 27, 2017 at 4:19 pm
Last Post: Clueless Morgan
  Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas. LastPoet 42 12476 January 29, 2015 at 11:48 pm
Last Post: Jenny A
  Advice on quote editing Faith No More 19 7150 May 10, 2014 at 5:18 pm
Last Post: Fidel_Castronaut
  Be discreet, please! Kayenneh 2 2798 February 9, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Last Post: Gilgamesh



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)