. That way you don't type inside the quote. 😉

No, it's not (EVER) that. What happens is that sometimes the text ends up on the same line as the opening {quote} or closing {/quote} tags.

Here it must be exactly like this structure, otherwise it creates a mess:

{quote mid="604957854"}

quoted text on a separate line

{/quote}

On another forum that I commonly use it's quite different - you need to make it like this, or it stuffs up:

{quote mid="604957854"}quoted text on a SAME line{/quote}