# A note on quotes from your friendly neighborhood TubaDiva **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 17, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972 "2001-11-17T19:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/1 "2001-11-17T19:18:49Z")
We’ve had quite a few incidents of late where someone posts not only a link to a cite or an interesting article, but they also cut and paste the entire text into the thread. That’s not the way to do things around here. Not only is it a violation of copyright and a waste of bandwidth, you shouldn’t make everyone wade through an entire article just to prove your point. It’s very good to hyperlink to whatever it is you want people to read and it’s permissible to quote a **short** excerpt as a pointer. That’s it, though. Any questions about SDMB policy? Let us know. Send me an email ([TubaDiva@aol.com](mailto:TubaDiva@aol.com)) or open a thread in [About This Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/forumdisplay.php?forumid=2). Thanks. your humble TubaDiva Administrator PS I’m going against our usual rule and crossposting this in a couple other forums – I didn’t want to disturb Ed’s survey announcement, can only have one announcement at a time around here – this is not an invitation for more crossposting by the Teeming Millions. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/2 "2001-11-17T19:21:48Z")
I disagree. (Sorry, but this **is** Great Debates. 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/3 "2001-11-17T19:28:31Z")
I’ll add that when using MS Internet Explorer, it’s usually easy to highlight the particular short text you wish to quote, hit control-C, switch to SDMB and open a thread, type [Q U O T E] (without the spaces), hit control-V to paste in the material, and type [/ Q U O T E] to close it. You can, as well, have multiple instances of MSIE open to enable toggling back and forth to quote portions separated from each other by material you do not wish to quote. I’m not sure whether this works in Netscape or other browsers, or what you can do with WEBTV. But for a large portion of us, it’s the easy way to quote from a source. ---
**Author:** ![JDM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90db22/32.png) [@JDM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDM)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/4 "2001-11-17T19:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\*I disagree. \*\* Do you have a cite for that? JDM ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/5 "2001-11-17T23:02:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JDM \* > \*\*Do you have a cite for that? > > JDM \*\* You hypocrite! You didn’t ask for a cite in [this thread](http://fake.www.address.ha.ha.ha/)! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-on-quotes-from-your-friendly-neighborhood-tubadiva/93972/6 "2001-11-18T06:02:23Z")
> [@](#): > > You hypocrite! Sorry. No name-calling. Off to the PIT!!! BUAHAHAHAHA! 😉 -Soup