I know this has probably been a topic thats boring to everyone, but I am a fairly new member, and I wanted to seek out some help on a few specific issues on how to more effectively use this site. I'm going to list a few specific questions, but any other helpful hints would be wonderful:

1) What is the best way to track the posts you have started and/or participated in?

2) How do you quote a portion of a post?

Simple, I know, but i'm just starting to participate in forum sites and this stuff has been quite difficult for me to find information on. I soon hope to be an intelligent member of your conversations