Right. Quotes.
Some of you seem to regularly fuck up quotes and it's angered my forum tidyness chip; it is an anal chip. The most common mistake seems to be writing your reply in the bottom of the quote by mistake.
When you hit the quote button above somebody's post, you'll get some gubbins like this appearing in your reply box...
[quote author=flammableBen link=topic=29986.msg583463#msg583463 date=1219529285]
Right I'm fed up of you etards fucking it up and posting seven things of the same video.
Ignore all the stuff which says embed with the complex code stuff. All you need to do is put the address. The forum sorts it for you.
[nobbc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlINN4UHTs[/nobbc]
Like that. (infact there I had to use extra code there to stop it showing the video.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlINN4UHTs.
Lovely.
[/quote]
Make sure you write your reply
after the bit which says [/quote].
If you're quoting a few different things and you want to write the text around each one, then hitting the quote button above a post will insert the quote gubbins where your flashy text cursor is. Just make sure that none of your reply is between the opening [quote] and the closing [/quote].
If someones written a list and you want to add your own ratings or something, then by all means add it between the quotes, but it makes it easier for everybody to read if you make your changes by surrounding each one with bold tags [b][/b].
It's generally not a race on the forums and it's almost always worth hitting the preview button and reading your post. It only takes a few seconds.
Also this is a good excuse to bump the youtube posting advice, even if it is stickied.