It is not compulsory to do it in that way and i am pretty sure i have seen applications that were posted as links instead of quotes. Personally i would choose links to quotes in this case, as quotes makes the thread large, while links would basically take whoever is interested straight to the posts in question. Anyway, OP already edited to the quote format, so that's fine as well.
Imagine a situation similar to Ratimov. OP posted the links but then when theymos was checking the posts, he found nothing is there. I think it makes a good sense for the quote post. Sometimes it amaze me when I see simple lines from theymos but it has great insights.
I wanted to keep the OP short but I edited it in the way it is needed. Thank you for the warning.
You are welcome bud. I wish you become a merit source soon.