Aspenglow's moderation..[Rules about quotes][Note - Title edited]

[Mangetout]

The rule pertaining to quotation of off-board individuals appears to be less stringent and specific than the rule for quoting what a board member actually posted in a thread, so I think you’d perhaps get more leeway with abridgment or truncation of quoting famous non-SDMB people, unless it was clear the alterations were done to misquote or mislead.

@Ed_Zotti

Quoting. Falsely attributing a quote to another SDMB user, or modifying another’s post in order to cast him/her in a bad light, is grounds for revocation of your posting privileges. We allow parody quotes under certain conditions. Here are the permissible options:

• Quote attributed to real SDMB user. Quote must be accurate, whether displayed using the message board’s quote function or ordinary quotation marks. Normal editorial rules apply: you may indicate omitted portions of a quote by the use of ellipses “…” or devices such as [snip]. You may add text to clarify a word using square brackets (e.g., “her [the sister’s] friend”), but you may not add editorial comments or edit a quote to change the substantive meaning; nor may you substitute text such as “some blather” or “more nonsense” inside the [QUOTE] tags or quotation marks. This applies to all forums including the Pit.
• Unattributed quote (no name). Unattributed parody quotes are permitted in all forums provided they don’t violate other SDMB rules.
• Parody attribution. In the Pit only, quotes (including parody quotes) may be attributed to a parody username, provided that (a) the parody username is obviously satirical – we’ll be the judge of obviousness; and (b) no other rules are violated. Quotes attributed to parody usernames are not permitted in other forums.

Note:

• SDMB moderators do not routinely check quotes for accuracy. If you see a violation of the above rules, please report it.
• The above rules apply to quotes of SDMB users only. We encourage accurate quoting of off-board individuals in a serious discussion; links are recommended. If you derail a discussion with fake or misleading quotes of off-board individuals, we reserve the right to take action.

So for example (and IANAMod so take this with a pinch of salt), I don’t think anyone would be overly concerned if you quoted, from memory, Willy Wonka as having said “I said GOOD DAY sir!”. Someone (maybe a whole load of people) might correct your memory of the line (because the line does not appear in that exact form in the movie), but I don’t reckon it would be quite the same thing as if you use the quote function on a thing another SDMB member said, then just alter the quoted text without ellipses or markup to indicate the reason for the alteration.