ERD50
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fify = 'Fixed It For You'.
I know people are trying to be 'cute', and I get a chuckle out of it sometimes, but I think it is actually very bad form to take someone else's 'quote', and make it look like they said something they didn't. 'Quote' means 'quote' - right?
If someone is skimming the thread, or that original quote was on the previous page, it looks even more like the person being quoted actually said that. It just seems wrong to me, to attribute a quote to someone, when that is not what they said. And the OP may never see it to respond.
How about people just say "Did you mean to say..xyz"?, or "You realize, that when you say that, you are really saying... xyz". Modifying someone's 'quote' is lying.
-ERD50
I know people are trying to be 'cute', and I get a chuckle out of it sometimes, but I think it is actually very bad form to take someone else's 'quote', and make it look like they said something they didn't. 'Quote' means 'quote' - right?
If someone is skimming the thread, or that original quote was on the previous page, it looks even more like the person being quoted actually said that. It just seems wrong to me, to attribute a quote to someone, when that is not what they said. And the OP may never see it to respond.
How about people just say "Did you mean to say..xyz"?, or "You realize, that when you say that, you are really saying... xyz". Modifying someone's 'quote' is lying.
-ERD50