Hi Joel,
your posts shouldn't be deleted by anyone. If the nature of a post is unacceptably inflammatory, threatens others' individuals or personal details, or is otherwise inappropriate, the author would be notified of the violation. Are your posts posting normally in the forum, and then later you can't find them anymore? Has this happened more than once? Have you tried the "Search" tool to locate them? Please make note of which forums you posted in/the link to the post, when you post it, so you can report it.. I don't know of anyone's posts being deleted. You are right, they should not be.
Hi Lesley,
see this link for details on how to do quotes:
http://antiochians.org/forum/help.php#bbcodeYou wrap [ quote ] before and [ /quote ] (with no spaces) around whatever you're quoting. That link will show it better
