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This really should not need to be written but it seems that there is a misunderstanding here on the site of what is acceptable and unacceptable in quoting a member's post. We do not have a rule on this but we do want members to understand that to edit what a member has written within a quote to change what he/she said is bearing false witness against him/her and is not going to be tolerated here.
So here are examples of what is allowed and not allowed.
To start we have a post and here is a quote...it's a fake post of course for example only:
Here is an edited version of that quote that is acceptable and the reason is because it's not altering the idea of what the member wrote. It is a snip of a section that someone would like to respond to:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because the idea of what the member originally wrote has been altered.:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because it has been changed with additional words that the member never said:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because it snips apart what the member said and pastes portions that were not meant to go together and thus changing the idea of what the member wrote:
To recap...
You may quote a member's post in full or you may quote a member's post in part so that you may address sections of what the member said.
You may not edit what the person said to change their idea or to add your own words in there.
STAFF will edit member's posts when there are rule violations but we will not change the idea of your post. We will remove offensive words (profanity) or flames.
So here are examples of what is allowed and not allowed.
To start we have a post and here is a quote...it's a fake post of course for example only:
Here is an edited version of that quote that is acceptable and the reason is because it's not altering the idea of what the member wrote. It is a snip of a section that someone would like to respond to:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because the idea of what the member originally wrote has been altered.:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because it has been changed with additional words that the member never said:
Here is an edited version that is NOT acceptable and the reason is because it snips apart what the member said and pastes portions that were not meant to go together and thus changing the idea of what the member wrote:
To recap...
You may quote a member's post in full or you may quote a member's post in part so that you may address sections of what the member said.
You may not edit what the person said to change their idea or to add your own words in there.
STAFF will edit member's posts when there are rule violations but we will not change the idea of your post. We will remove offensive words (profanity) or flames.
