POSTING GUIDELINES: GET'EM MONKEY STYLE

[RB]

While we're a reasonable bunch, we do have some expectations for the etiquette of our posters and want you to know what will keep you in the Monkey cage, or excommunicate you to the wild jungles of the Internet to swing on a few vines to relax yourself. Needless to say, we'd like to cage you here rather than set you "free." Follow the guidelines below (there's only 3 - humor us) and you'll spend many a happy day picking flies off each other, chattering, and bouncing off the walls.  

Monkeys will avoid feeding the trolls. True trolls are a rare breed; and the owners, admins and moderators know what and who they are and we have super-dooper bug spray to get rid of them. 'Nuff said.

Monkeys will use proper social etiquette in expressing their opinions. There are always more than 1 side and opinion to every story; some posts you will like and agree with, and others you won't. While lively debate is appreciated, moderators and forum admins reserve the right to admonish and/or eject, without notice, those parties who debate using insults, engage in name-calling, or otherwise imflammatory posts. Act like you're at a public place using the manners your mother taught you and you'll be just fine. If you don't have manners, don't bother posting as it just wastes our time mashing the "banned" button. We've got other things to do.

Monkeys recognize that the forum threads and some functionality may be temporarily unavailable at times. During high peak periods, forum operators may disable some features such as avatars, sig lines and the like. We'll restore it when the hooplah dies down. Likewise, we reserve the right to edit, delete or move posts or threads in any manner that we choose. Hey, when it's your house, you can move the furniture.....

If you have any input, give it to us. Our people may call your people, and we may change, or we may not. We're always happy to hear from you and glad to have you in our crowd!

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[Bill]

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[georgiablues]

Quoting posts in whole can result in some rather long posts and often you only want to respond to the last comment made.

Here's how to edit quotes:

1.  Quotes are embedded from the inside out - the oldest post is within the inner-most pair of "quote"s and the last reply is within the outermost.

example:  

Spot posted first,

Jane replied to Spot

and Dick replied to Jane.

2.  Insert 1 or more blank spaces to seperate the quote(s) you want to respond to - this makes step 3 a bit easier:

example:  

 

Spot posted

3.  Use your mouse to highlight the portions that you don't need to quote leaving one end-quote "

" for each begin-quote "

.

4.  Hit your delete key to delete highlighted text leaving the desired  quote(s).

 and Dick replied to Jane.

5. To display quoted text in boxes, make sure that BBCcode is ON and not Disabled.

6.  Preview and/or Submit.

and VOILA!!

This takes a couple of seconds but will make the threads a lot easier to read!

[RB]

Actually we'd prefer quotes are no more than 2 deep.  In the newsgroup world, we call this snipping to enclose the relative points of other poster's comments into one post.