To quote posters in my replies?

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Is there some sort of particular MN etiquette surrounding quotes on this forum?

The reason I ask is because I've been merrily quoting away and twice in about 15 minutes I've been asked if I'm doing this for fun or what's this childish repeating nonsense.

I am utterly perplexed. One of the people asking had already quoted several previous posters including me!

The way I've been quoting is to bold the quote. Should I be using " " or italics instead? I have seen all three being used with impunity here, so I am really not sure what has gone wrong in my case

It would be good to know what the etiquette is or even drop quotes altogether, though my reason for using them was because I thought it helped establish who was replying to whom.

When in Rome and all that.....

(I suspect this will be consider a TAAT and won't last long - that IS one rule of etiquette I am aware of. However, it may last long enough to find out what the heck is going on, at least )

YANBU

I read that earlier and assumed I'd missed something.

Unless your name is causing confusion and they thought you'd quoted them from the same post more than once maybe?

User names with numbers all tend to look like the same poster to most of us if that makes sense?

Otherwise it's a case of fuckedifiknow

LOL

Thanks, *Worra"

Yes, I think there may be something in your theory. Numbers are just a jumble to me, so it's quite possible I am being mixed up with someone else. I'll try a name change - it surely can't hurt!

Thanks, itsmine

It's good to know I haven't made some terrible faux pas. I don't mean to come across as rude or anything.

YANBU. Like itsmine said, it's much more annoying when someone references something a poster said on a different page of the thread, but doesn't repeat the post.

YANBU, I think if you are agreeing with someone above, in a thread, it's good to Friday reference to specify

I like it when people do this, saves me scrolling back too trying to figure out who they are replying to

Quoting posts and the poster is ok if it's relevant.

I try and rtft so rereading a block of text requoted by the first ten replies can be a ball ache.

Addressing the poster by name is a very civilised bit of mnet I miss on other sites.

I would say it comes down to your user name..

This is all very helpful, thank you.

NavyandWhite I don't believe I was. I've re-read and don't think so.

Navy yes, yes it is.

I was thinking username too.

Change your name to BoldMumsnetter

How strange-on a fast moving thread it's pretty much the only way to make it obvious what you're replying to.

No you have done nothing wrong.

I saw that post and I have no idea as to what they are on about tbh.

Just looked at the thread and I don't get it either, especially since it appears that the poster complaining you were quoting them had quoted other posters in their own posts. Really odd. That's mumsnet for you-you occasionally piss off people for no good reason at all. I wouldn't give it any more thought.

My new username!