It looks like a lot of people are asking about how you use the quotes.
FIRST if quotes don't seem to be working for you, go to your user panel and make sure "Allow BBCode" is set to YES.
Once you have that set, this is how to format quotes:
4.2.7: Quoting Messages
Quoting messages allows you to include other's posts in your own. It is useful for showing that you are replying to a post, or part of a post.
To quote all of someone's post, look at the top right corner of their post and click Quote. This will take you to the posting form, and will allow you to reply to the post. It will also automatically add the appropriate BBCode to your post to quote the post you are replying to.
The proper syntax to quote a post is:
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[quote="<name to quote>"]<text to quote>[/quote]
<name to quote> is the source of your quote, and <text to quote> is what you are quoting. So to quote the user Cheese Man saying "Power the behold of cheese."
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[quote="Cheese Man"]Power the behold of cheese[/quote]
And this:
Quoting text in replies
There are two ways you can quote text: with a reference or without.
* When you utilise the Quote function to reply to a post on the board you should notice that the post text is added to the message window enclosed in a [ quote=""][ /quote] block. This method allows you to quote with a reference to a person or whatever else you choose to put. For example, to quote a piece of text Mr. Blobby wrote, you would enter:
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[quote="Mr. Blobby"]The text Mr. Blobby wrote would go here[/quote]
The resulting output will automatically add: Mr. Blobby wrote: before the actual text. Remember that you must include the quotation marks "" around the name you are quoting -- they are not optional.
* The second method allows you to blindly quote something. To utilise this enclose the text in [ quote][ /quote] tags. When you view the message it will simply show: Quote: before the text itself.