The names are changed to protect the ignorant.

Let's pretend a fictitional person wrote the following paragraph:
I, Apotropocksie, wish to formally apologize to SenaxFlatulus for my snobbery and generally abusive behavior towards George W. Bush. I realize now through your brilliant debating technique that I was wrong and you are indeed right. George Bush is the greatest president of all time. I'm going to build a shrine to him in my front yard this week.

After recovering from shock and climbing back into my chair, I would want to reply to their post to offer my appreciation. So, I click the quote button on the bottom right of their post and their complete quote would appear in my text entry box. I would notice that the open quote command would appear in their quote before their text. I would also notice their close quote command would appear.

I would first hi-light and copy the open quote command.

[quote="Apotropocksie";p="224940"]

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)