FR Posting Style Book - format for replying (We seem to be slipping)

Me, Myself and BJungNan | April 9, 2005 | BJungNan

[BJungNan]

Lately there seems to be some slippage of what has been for years the common style for replying to posts. In the interest of FR Stylebook maintenance, here is what has been proper style on replying to comments in a thread.

The common form for replies is as follows:

1. Quote the person you are replying to with italics (if you are replying to someone specifically and what they said).
2. Seperate with a paragraph mark.
3. Show your reply in regular text

Example:
Even after five years (or so) of reading FR, I still find myself amazed at the quality of discussion and the wealth of information, especially posts from the many experts that are members of FR. Who would have thought we would have experts in typefonts of all things (to Dan Rather's chagrin).

You sure have that right BJungNan. Jim and FR are the greatest!

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Placing the comments of the person you are replying to in quote marks or in Bold may get the job done, but really it is not common style. At least not to my FR eyes. Those using quotes perhaps don't know html but it is really easy. FR is where many people learned html. Somewhere on here is an html sandbox (perhaps someone can offer up that link).

[Buddy B]

FR Posting Style Book

[Buddy B]

Junk

[John Lenin]

What about the thickness ?

[freeangel]

Thanks

[FreedomCalls]

Gee...didn't know you could do that

[No Blue States]

Posting on Ebay

[beltfed308]

[BigSkyFreeper]

Thickness works too...This one is 15 pixels high

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[raybbr]

That's too much work!If you do itto every other word and vary the shading it's more effective.

[xsmommy]

puce?

[baseballmom]

Remember to close your tags!

LOL, that brings us back doesn't it??? ;-)

PS, Good post. I spend a lot of time scrolling back up to see what was said in a lot of posts.

[BigSkyFreeper]

IE supports it, it just ignores it. If it didn't support it, you would get errors.

[WSGilcrest]

[beltfed308]

Kool

[ErnBatavia]

Beautiful!

[FreedomCalls]

IE supports it, it just ignores it. If it didn't support it, you would get errors.

Not true. The following sentence is enclosed in <BigSkyFreeper> tags.

Test.

Did you get an error or is sentence displayed and the tag just ignored?

You can't claim that IE "supports" the <BigSkyFreeper> tag can you? IE handles it and the <blink> tag the same way after all.

[beltfed308]

Kool

[Misty Memory]

What about the thickness ?

Hmmmmmmmm...not sure how to answer that!! Thicknes is important :D

<hr width=50% noshade size=20>

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If you leave off the noshade it will look like this:

<hr width=50% size=20>

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[noblejones]

Wat in de blauwe uitbarstingen bent u allen die spreken over?

[sergeantdave]

The word "bold" should not be capitalized.

And you forgot to use a period after the word "text."

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