I've made the observation recently that many of you are quoting previous posts when you make a reply - and that's a good thing. However, there are some good ways to use this and some bad and I want to take a quick minute to point these out.

First, if someone types up a lengthy post and you want to respond to part of it, it's best to click "Quote" but then edit out the stuff you don't need from the original post. I have seen reply posts that have had one line and the quoted section was 15-20 lines long and it was the post right before the reply. Just ask yourself what is necessary and what is not.

Also, many of you use Quote when replying to a post with images. This does several things...(1) it causes the whole thread to be bigger/fatter than it needs to be and (2) it causes these images to be pulled down multiple times, depending on your settings and where the post is located in the thread. If the image(s) is hosted on our server, it takes more bandwidth and costs us more money in the long run. If it's hosted on someone elses server, same thing and sometimes.... if it's one of those free image hosting servers that only allow an image to display X number of times in a day... it causes that limit to be hit twice as fast. Make sense?

So, hopefully these suggestions will be helpful to all of us and help to further improve our very active forum.

Thanks!