It ain't what you say it's the way that you say it
So this is probably an odd way of breaking a two-week silence, but I'm curious…
You are posting a reply to a journal entry or comment on LiveJournal and you want to quote some of it in your reply. How do you quote it?
<blockquote>
11(11.0%)
<q>
6(6.0%)
<em>
8(8.0%)
<i>
42(42.0%)
press the Quote button
3(3.0%)
> in Usenet style
9(9.0%)
by typing quotation marks before and after it
12(12.0%)
something else
9(9.0%)
You are reading the comments to someone's journal entry. In an ideal world, quotations of the post or of previous comments should be formatted:
in italics
53(43.1%)
in a smaller (or bigger, I guess) font
7(5.7%)
in a different typeface
7(5.7%)
in a different colour
8(6.5%)
in narrower margins
15(12.2%)
> in Usenet style
16(13.0%)
with quotation marks before and after it
14(11.4%)
in the same style as the surrounding text
0(0.0%)
inline (with no paragraph breaks above or below)
0(0.0%)
in some other way
3(2.4%)