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Wiki  >  TechNet Articles  >  Forum Moderation Guide: Managing Posts and Threads: Quoting

Forum Moderation Guide: Managing Posts and Threads: Quoting

Forum Moderation Guide: Managing Posts and Threads: Quoting

This page is part of the Moderating Microsoft Forums series.

When quoting a user’s post, moderators must use the quoting feature. The quoting feature within the forums makes text much easier to read because it appears as a dark block of text, indicating that your response is, in part, a quote from someone else. Figure 1 shows the proper use of quoting.
Figure 1: Proper Quoting Technique
 
By contrast, not using the quoting feature makes it difficult to read and understand the workflow of a post. Consider Figure 2, which shows a quote that was just copied/pasted – not quoted. Notice that it is difficult to determine which part is the quote from earlier in the thread and which part is the user’s response.
Figure 2: Improper Quoting Technique
 
Moderators are not asked to change the quoting for other users. These examples are presented just to exhibit how moderators are expected to quote.

 
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  • 22 Aug 2012 12:50 PM

    Karl Mitschke edited Revision 7. Comment: Modified figure numbers

  • 3 Aug 2012 8:45 AM

    Zoltán Horváth edited Revision 4. Comment: Replaced the first sentence, just not to start a page with "back to".

  • 2 Aug 2012 9:57 PM

    yottun8 edited Revision 3. Comment: Added "Other Languages" and ja-JP version.

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    on 25 Jan 2012 4:55 AM

    I agree that quoting can make it much clearer to follow a thread. A disadvantage of excessive quoting is that it reduces the amount of new material per forum page and hence makes it necessary to page forward/back more frequently. Quoting should therefore be used judicously.

  • Posted by
    on 20 Mar 2012 7:00 AM

    Personally, i prefer prepending  ">". I find this less intrusive, especially when responding to many points individually.

  • Posted by
    on 22 Mar 2012 8:04 PM

    The main point is that it is a good practice to make sure it is obvious what you are responding to, whether you use the prepending method or the built-in quoting feature. Thanks for the comment.

  • Posted by
    on 2 Aug 2012 9:57 PM

    yottun8 edited Revision 3. Comment: Added "Other Languages" and ja-JP version.

  • Posted by
    on 3 Aug 2012 8:45 AM

    Zoltán Horváth edited Revision 4. Comment: Replaced the first sentence, just not to start a page with "back to".

  • Posted by
    on 22 Aug 2012 12:50 PM

    Karl Mitschke edited Revision 7. Comment: Modified figure numbers

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