Quote Etiquette

[whottt]

I don't really break the whole post down and quote it...I usually only quote the parts I want to respond to in the context I want to respond to them...

[timvp]

I don't really break

Too bad we can't say the same thing about Brent Barry.

[exstatic]

Sequ wants short quotes? That's a shock. Oh, and you can turn off sigs, lollypop guild refugee. Treo browsing. What a freak.

[ShoogarBear]

I love Taco Bell

[whottt]

Too bad we can't say the same thing about Brent Barry.

Too bad we can't say the same thing about our offense without Brent Barry.

[ShoogarBear]

Oh, good. Haven't had one of these in a while.

[whottt]

So...who did you root for before the Spurs were around?

[m33p0]

... Unfortunately it's mostly a lost art among non-writers.

it can't be a lost art if it never existed in the first place.

[ShoogarBear]

So...who did you root for before the Spurs were around?

[whottt]

Cool...was wondering.

[ShoogarBear]

My family moved to SA the summer of 1973. The Spurs came down about a month after we arrived. After Earl Foreman (who made Peter Holt look like Diamond Jim) sold Gervin to Angelo Drossos, I figured it was fate and gave up on the Squires.

[SequSpur]

Sequ wants short quotes? That's a shock. Oh, and you can turn off sigs, lollypop guild refugee. Treo browsing. What a freak.

blow me.

[SequSpur]

bump....

[txstr1986]

Awesome!

[Obstructed_View]

Do ya really have to quote the whole damn thing? I mean, we can scroll up and read it....

Damn...

So if your scroll up works fine, why can't you just scroll down? Oh yeah, then you wouldn't be able to start another thread.

[spurster]

Sequ cares about etiquette? Next we'll hear that he likes quiche.

[ClingingMars]

I second that.

Using capital letters at the beginning of a sentence helps. I find the all lowercase letters posts really hard to read.
Also, if a post is long, breaking it up with a space is helpful. Otherwise it can read like one long run on sentence and it's easy to get lost in the middle of it.

I agree, a message board is not the place to expect good writing, and I know criticizing people for spelling or grammar issues is considered in bad form.
But like you say, if you want your take to be understood a little effort helps a lot.

Oh...This doesn't apply for people who don't speak English as their first language. They put in the effort to post in English, so I'll put in the effort to understand them.

what she said.

-Mars

[anakha]

Sequ cares about etiquette? Next we'll hear that he likes quiche.

And what's wrong with quiche? Love the stuff.

[genomefreak13]

I think the purpose of quoting is to emphasize the statement we want to convey or get a response off. So quoting the whole thing doesn't really fit well to its purpose.

Instead of emphasizing, it makes it more confusing since the reader wouldn't know which part of it to reply on. Which leads to the other problem of people talking out of topic or context.

Hope we guys agree on this rule. It would really make life more easier and faster.

[Solid D]

**** me.

Hardly etiquette, on any level.

[SequSpur]

some of you need a refresher course.

[picnroll]

Do ya really have to quote the whole damn thing? I mean, we can scroll up and read it....

Damn...

I agree. I prefer a synopsis in quotations like ...

Worthless SequSpur comment...

Maybe a tool like for bold, italics, underline for that one.

[bigfish22]

Well while we're on the subject of etiquette, can we please use the Spurs forum for only SPURS-RELATED threads?!? Too many irrelevant threads going into the Spurs section that already have a forum created elsewhere on this very board where it would be better served.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Trying to explain the importance of grammar and punctuation on a message board for a professional sporting franchise reminded me of this.

If you don't know how to do it already, give up.

Anthropomorphic toilets always freak me out.

[urunobili]

Well while we're on the subject of etiquette, can we please use the Spurs forum for only SPURS-RELATED threads?!? Too many irrelevant threads going into the Spurs section that already have a forum created elsewhere on this very board where it would be better served.