How Do I Format Block Quotes?

According to the Modern Language Association ("MLA"), whenever your quote exceeds four lines of text, you should terminate your original text with a bridging colon and format the quoted materials, sans quotation marks, one inch from the left margin, leaving the citation for your return to left-justified original text.

Thankfully, things are a little easier here at BlueNC! Here's an example of how the block quote tag works. If you type the following:

My favorite Joe Hill Song starts off with these deeply skeptical words:
<blockquote>
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:

CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
</blockquote>
That's a lie!

Here's what you'll see:

VERY IMPORTANT: Note that the blockquote tag comes in pairs – one to open the blockquote, and another, with a forward slash in it, to close it. Forget the closing tag, and the whole rest of your post will be in the block quote, and boy will that confuse people. Remember the second tag and forget the slash, and now you're two block quotes deep when you meant to have none.

Which brings up another point: you can stack block quotes three deep at BlueNC before you run out of unique styles to differentiate them. For example, if you type this:

This is the main blog text.
<blockquote>
This is the text of the top level block quote.
<blockquote>
This is the text of the second level block quote.
<blockquote>
And this is the text of the third level blockquote. Any further levels will repeat this style.
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>

You get this: