# Quoting people
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [December 30, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759 "2000-12-30T04:17:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759/1 "2000-12-30T04:17:38Z")
Okay I should know how by now, but I dont. So how do I quote someone on the SDMB? Also, how do I get bold type? These questions have plague me for some time now.
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### Author:  [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759/2 "2000-12-30T04:20:10Z")
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode)
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759/3 "2000-12-30T04:59:51Z")
While that was a fine cite mblackwell, Obvious Guy might wish to know that an alternate means of quoting that wasn’t mentioned on that page is to hit the “quote” button under someone’s post.
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### Author:  [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quoting-people/47759/4 "2000-12-30T05:51:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by smackfu \*
> \*\*While that was a fine cite mblackwell, Obvious Guy might wish to know that an alternate means of quoting that wasn’t mentioned on that page is to hit the “quote” button under someone’s post. \*\*
Thanks to you both, sometimes its the **Obvious** things I over look 🙂