Playlists and the use of Quote Tags

If you've read Menewsha's posting rules, you probably already know that you can't copy and paste text that you did not write, such as song lyrics or clips of movie dialogue, without using quote tags. What you may not realize (or, remember - let's be honest here ) is that any time your post is going to need a significant amount of text from elsewhere, you must use Quote tags. This includes things like playlists, where you have lists of names and titles and links.

The simplest way to achieve this is to highlight the text and click the little text bubble icon () in the post editing window, but you can also type the tags manually:

[quote] your text here [/quote]

Alternatively, simply surrounding your text in square brackets will achieve the same purpose:

[ your text here ]

Citation of sources is always appreciated, but it does not exempt you from the above. The reason we require quote tags/brackets around material from elsewhere is that doing so stops gold earning on the quoted text. It's meant to deter spam in the interest of preserving the integrity of Menewsha's gold economy, so that we don't have folks posting page after page of copy/paste in order to gain large amounts of gold very quickly.