[ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:24 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What Dave said in his post, but just to point out: the very fact that you
> see a need to type "dave sill" to clarify your quote means that you are
> quoting wrong.   adrian
>
> Now tell me - what's wrong with that?
>

It's manual, so you can get it wrong--like the Spike quote you attributed
to me. The attribution is at the end of the quote, so one has to read the
whole thing to see that it's a quote. It's not a quoting format used by
anyone else here.


> I need to attribute the quote to the person who wrote it, eh?  And I do
> not understand 'quoting wrong'.
>

Like I said, it's not a question or right or wrong.


> Punctuation? Maybe I am not doing it the Wiki way, but most of us having
> been doing it this way as long as I have been in this group.  Maybe I am
> being dense here.
>

Maybe you are. If you really think other people here are doing that, you're
wrong. What you're doing sort of works, but it isn't ideal, which is why I
tried to take the time to explain why and how to do it right. If you just
don't care or prefer your way or whatever, then fine, continue doing what
you're doing. But if you really can't see the differences between your way
and the standard way, well, then you are being dense.

You use Gmail, so it's automatically using the standard quoting method.
You're having to manual undo that and redo it your way. For what benefit?

-Dave
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