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Alex · December 24th, 2008, 11:33 AM

Hi all!

Wanted to post up about something I'm seeing on this board from time to time. People tend to use these two buttons interchangeably:

and

when they really do have a different purpose. If you are responding to the person directly above you on the page, and there's no chance that anyone reading the page isn't going to know who you're responding to, there's no need to quote their entire post in your own post right below. Use the Post Reply button. Especially if there are pictures in his/her post. If you're only responding to a small portion of their post and you feel it would be easier for folks to know that, then certainly use the quote feature, but cut the rest of their post out of the quote tags so the small portion you're replying to is apparent.

If you're responding to multiple questions from multiple posts, absolutely leave some quotes in there so people can follow your train of thought, and even consider using the "multi-quote" feature, by pressing these buttons:

before you hit reply.

Thanks!
-Alex (your webmaster and forum etiquette geek

)

December 24th, 2008, 11:33 AM	#1
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	Alex's silly pet peeve of no importance... :-) Hi all! Wanted to post up about something I'm seeing on this board from time to time. People tend to use these two buttons interchangeably: and when they really do have a different purpose. If you are responding to the person directly above you on the page, and there's no chance that anyone reading the page isn't going to know who you're responding to, there's no need to quote their entire post in your own post right below. Use the Post Reply button. Especially if there are pictures in his/her post. If you're only responding to a small portion of their post and you feel it would be easier for folks to know that, then certainly use the quote feature, but cut the rest of their post out of the quote tags so the small portion you're replying to is apparent. If you're responding to multiple questions from multiple posts, absolutely leave some quotes in there so people can follow your train of thought, and even consider using the "multi-quote" feature, by pressing these buttons: before you hit reply. Thanks! -Alex (your webmaster and forum etiquette geek ) __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)