TsFlowers, I may have missed the announcement. Are you one of the admins of NGA?
You seem concerned about wasting space for NGA. Yet you made posts at 10:31,10:34, 10:39, 10:51, 10:54, 12:16 and after creating the discussion you run off to lunch? Could you not have put your information into a single post? And after starting a discussion, could you not have stuck around a while?
Maybe it's just me, but when I have questions about how the site works, I usually address my questions to Dave or Trish.
Most people already know that the 'quote' can be edited. I almost always edit the quote down to make my meaning more clear. Many people (for whatever reason) just leave the entire quote intact including all the photos from the original post. It may be like trying to teach an old dog new tricks, difficult but not impossible.
Good luck.