• Anything ‘published’ on the web is viewed as intellectual property and, regardless of whether it displays a copyright symbol or not, is therefore copyrighted by the originator. The only exception to this is if there is a “free and unrestricted reuse” statement associated with the work.

    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

    3. You must provide a link to the article along with the name of website. For example: ww.xxx.yyy/zzz (The Lower Thumbsuck Daily News).

    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

    Thank you for your cooperation and your participation in TFL, the leading online forum for firearms enthusiasts.

Quote Button

It's the
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button. Just copy/paste what you want to quote, highlight it and hit that button. If you want to add their name put ="their name" between the E & ] of the first
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It is much easier to quote when there was a button on every post like many other VB forums.

Example:
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TheJ said:
It is much easier to quote when there was a button on every post like many other VB forums.
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Yup. So easy that most folks will simply quote an entire post, just to remark on one and only one small item of the quoted post.
 
Antipitas said:
Yup.
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Quite honestly it has really not been a big deal to me, which is why I haven't raise the issue in a thread of my own. I was simply commented (stating an empirical fact) on this because somebody else raised it. You are very correct that it can be quite annoying when people quote entire posts unnecessarily (especially those with lots of large pics)
 
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