quotin'

**moosetication** · March 18th, 2005, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by drumaddix:
Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

When you want to reply and quote the original, don't use the "Reply" button. Instead, hit the "quote marks" quote ubb6

button (the rightmost icon in the row) directly above the original post you want to quote. The reply form will load with the entire post quoted with the correct tags around it. Then just edit out the bits you don't need.

[ March 18, 2005 07:17 AM: Message edited by: moosetication ]

**Dazzler** · March 18th, 2005, 12:14 PM

Originally posted by moosetication:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by drumaddix:
[qb]Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

When you want to reply and quote the original, don't use the "Reply" button. Instead, hit the "quote marks" quote ubb6

button (the rightmost icon in the row) directly above the original post you want to quote. The reply form will load with the entire post quoted with the correct tags around it. Then just edit out the bits you don't need.
<hr /></blockquote>aaaaah, so THAT'S how you do it properly!! Cheers Moose. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

**erskoman** · March 18th, 2005, 01:00 PM

"aaaaah, so THAT'S how you do it properly!! Cheers Moose."

colored text, too

underlined, BIG or GREEN

Wow, this is fun ... I had no idea. By the way ... I listened to some of that Sean Rickman live performance that was posted recently, and thought it some of the most incredible drumming that I'd ever heard. I guess I misunderstood the post... I was expecting to hear Vinnie (and was curious to see what he was up to these days), and immediately afterwards I told my wife "Wow, I just heard THE most incredible Vinnie recording ... the guy is doing stuff that I would have thought impossible to do, except of course that Vinnie can do it!" ETC., but then when I checked back I saw that it was Sean Rickman. Holy Cow; it inspired me to start practicing seriously again. That's some mighty fearless drumming there ...

best wishes to all.

PE

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

a Mac user with a simple one-click mouse

**moosetication** · March 18th, 2005, 01:29 PM

Originally posted by erskoman:
but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

When you click the quotes button, it puts the special Hostboard tags around it, like this...

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><pre>{QUOTE}Originally posted by erskoman:
{QB}but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD...{/QB}{/QUOTE}</pre></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

...except with brackets rather than braces around them. Those tags are what do the "indented and bold" thing. You need to be careful not to accidentally delete them, or (as you did) end up putting the entire reply inside them, 'cos that confuses the bejesus out of Hostboard.

**peter b** · March 18th, 2005, 01:32 PM

Originally posted by erskoman:
"

Wow, this is fun ...

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

ahhhhhhh! i got it! ok peter, as moose said. don't hit 'reply'. hit the qoutes icon directly above the post you are quoting. it auto loads. then hi-light the stuff you don't want, and 'cut'. it didn't seem to work when i hi-lighted and hit the backspace to clear it.
try that...

**erskoman** · March 18th, 2005, 02:51 PM

Originally posted by zombywoof:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by erskoman:
"

Wow, this is fun ...

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

ahhhhhhh! i got it! ok peter, as moose said. don't hit 'reply'. hit the qoutes icon directly above the post you are quoting. it auto loads. then hi-light the stuff you don't want, and 'cut'. it didn't seem to work when i hi-lighted and hit the backspace to clear it.
try that...<hr /></blockquote>I think I got it ... Thanks! [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]

**Steve Holmes** · March 18th, 2005, 04:22 PM

Heh, it was me the edited DSOP's post.
That was kind of the point! [img]wink.gif[/img]

**FuseU1** · March 18th, 2005, 07:52 PM

Yeah. moosetication has actually stated the best & easiest way.

Wow. Da Rick just got the big phat 2 [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] s up from one ERSKO...now he can put THAT on his resume too![?]...& compared him to [some guy named] VINNIE. Look out! ;c)
Woot! [img]cool.gif[/img]

[ March 18, 2005 04:07 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]

**troutbrooke** · March 18th, 2005, 11:07 PM

Originally posted by Dazzler:
........ Drumming sort of person, may I suggest that before you bulldoze in with a holier than thou retort, you look to check for HUMOUR in the post??? I took it for granted that it would be fairly self evident.

I did, and it was, and so was mine.

[ March 19, 2005 02:21 AM: Message edited by: drumming sort of person ]

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