Blayne wrote:When I'm spending close to an hour writing a response to someones mega post and spent 15 minutes setting all the tags I thought at the time I would be given a little leeway for when I don't use quote tags for the whole thing,
What "mega post" are you referring to? What post in this thread has taken you "close to an hour" to draft? And, btw, I was one of the people who debated with the infamous troll DarkStar during his tenure at this board: you do not get much sympathy from me about being unable to use quote tags in countering long posts.
especially when some paragraphs have to be broken up into several smaller bits to properly respond to,
How much more difficult is it to use the quote tags than it is to use the little "" marks that you've been using? Also, it helps when you complain about the difficulty of breaking paragraphs down into "several smaller bits" when you are not in the midst of a run-on sentence. Oh. It hasn't even ended, yet. Well, then...
so far I've been trying to use quote tags predominantly but sometimes I don't use them its a judgement call I thought I could make depending on context and the size of the post.
It is a judgment call, and I find your judgment dramatically off. I even use quote tags when I'm replying to someone's general point just so people know to whose post I'm referring. Certainly you should use them when you're trying to get into a larger and more involved discussion on some topic.
Didn't know it was a board standard that I had to follow absolutely, I will be more careful in the future.
Concededly there is nothing in the Board Rules about proper use of quote tags (though a good faith effort at proper English is required largely because it makes materials easier for people to read and follow), but in a debate proper use of the tags really does make it easier to follow what's being said if you use them properly.
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