Regarding Quoting someone on the forums

Functionality? We don't need no steenking functionality!

Cut and paste, hit the " icon above. Type their name somewhere.

This forum is antiquated.

I've had that question about the @ symbol, too.

Could it be that when the "someone mentions me" box in un-checked in the "notification" page of a profile, it automatically disables the @ function for other members?

@whipsaw 

I didn't really there was an option like that in the profile.

I think you might be right.

I just used the @ symbol in this thread and only you and ebm appear, so according to what you are saying, the rest on this thread have it so that they cannot be notified.

I think that probably solves it.