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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Agreed. If the original poster feels as though the responder deliberately took a part of their post out of context for nefarious reasons, they're free to point that out. Unless a post that I'm responding to is overly lengthy, I'll usually just quote the whole thing and bold the part of it that I'm addressing...but there's nothing wrong with leaving out that part of the post that you're not responding to - especially if you employ the "..." to indicate that you've done that.

    How do people feel about the practice of putting a line through part of someone's post? (I've never actually figured out how to do that on this board.) Should that be okay?
    Use [ s ] and [ /s ] without the spaces.
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    Since the subject of quotation was also brought up we also have a certain member who likes to double quote and then reply as if both separate quotes from separate members represent the thoughts of both individuals.

    This is unfair and misleading!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    There’s nothing wrong with extracting exactly what you wish to address as long as you don’t alter the words.
    If it is in context yes. I also use bold if I am being specific so as not to confuse.

    No sense in quoting everything in a long drawn out posts that are not relevant to the point you are trying to make. Either in agreement or to refute it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Use [ s ] and [ /s ] without the spaces.
    I thought I'd tried that. Let me see.

    Yep, it worked that time. Thanks to you and the several others who told me the same thing. Now of course I'll end up never using it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RMNIXON View Post
    Since the subject of quotation was also brought up we also have a certain member who likes to double quote and then reply as if both separate quotes from separate members represent the thoughts of both individuals.

    This is unfair and misleading!
    Can you show an example of what you’re talking about?
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