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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26460 Australia	Quoting Dec 18^th, 2019 at 7:47am So are you allowed to change someones words in a quote or not? Or just some privileged few? Spot
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random Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2637 Gender:	Re: Quoting Reply #1 - Dec 18^th, 2019 at 7:49am Good question. I have been deleting long nested quotes and changing the font size of the relavant text. Is that Illegal?
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Reply #2 - Dec 18^th, 2019 at 8:00am

random wrote on Dec 18^th, 2019 at 7:49am:

Good question.

I have been deleting long nested quotes and changing the font size of the relavant text.

Is that Illegal?

I kinda remember a debate about that but not what was decided. IMO if it still says what the other person said it should be fine but someone quoted me and changed what i said.

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Captain Nemo Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8428 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Quoting Reply #3 - Dec 18^th, 2019 at 10:10am Should not change things "quoted" ... but I must say, great slabs of nested quotes are a pain in the bum. I sometimes quote the gist of someone else's post but truncate it with a "... " just allow more room to reply.
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Reply #4 - Dec 20^th, 2019 at 9:42pm

I'd prefer quotes to end as whole sentences. Sentences not truncated. Meanings not warped by selective quoting.

I have no problem deleting everything except what you are responding to, but it should not misrepresent what is being quoted. Leaving quotes to the whole of the sentence/statement is not something I think too onerous.

It seems my push to make a globally acceptable rule on quoting wasn't accepted so I don't bother any more.

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26460 Australia	Re: Quoting Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2019 at 3:01am Your words shouldn't be changed Spot
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 15914 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: Quoting Reply #6 - Dec 21^st, 2019 at 11:22pm Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 21^st, 2019 at 3:01am: Your words shouldn't be changed Spot I agree.
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