Conflicting formatting rules?

[Rahsna]

It seems that there are conflicting formatting rules.

Everywhere on the forum, this message is displayed:

If you have copied text output that contains formatting (colors, highlighting, etc.), please do not enclose it in QUOTE or CODE tags. Just right-click your mouse and choose "Paste Without Formatting" or similar (Paste as plain text).

However, in the topic Using CODE vs QUOTE tags with formatted content, it is written that:

Please do not use the CODE tag when pasting content that contains formatting (colored text, bold text, underline text, italic text, etc) Use the QUOTE tag instead.

(Underline added for emphasis.)

The way I interpret it makes it seems like the last message is in conflict of the first.
But I am new here, and may be missing something😌

[Snowhog]

Welcome to KFN. I wrote both messages. Hmm. I'll take a look at them.

[Snowhog]

The Topic you cited is three-years old. I've 'unstuck' that Topic. The displayed message is the guidance one should follow.

[skyfishgoo]

use QUOTE to quote someone else's post (worts and all).

It seems that there are conflicting formatting rules.

Everywhere on the forum, this message is displayed:

However, in the topic Using CODE vs QUOTE tags with formatted content, it is written that:

(Underline added for emphasis.)

The way I interpret it makes it seems like the last message is in conflict of the first.
But I am new here, and may be missing something😌

use the CONSOLE $ for command line inputs or package names that you want keep inline with the rest of your text

ls -al or firefox


use CODE # when you need a code block of text

that spans
multiple lines
and does not require
formatting other than spaces
and [text] characters

or if you have a really long line of text that would be impacted by a word wrap in the wrong place such as including log file output and things like that... the CODE block will automagically provide a scroll bar slider thing.
always put a single character such a period or slash on the last  line of the block so that the scroll bar doesn't hide the last line of actual text
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