The title should explain it. But, I’m attaching a screenshot to help illustrate. It is very frustrating when the system account keeps automatically modifying our replies by deleting our quoted text.
I think this is some logic to help prevent walls of quoted text. However, it’s doing it even if you just quote a single line of text.
You can see that it has done this when you edit your reply. It tells you at the top it was deleted automatically by the system. Can this be fixed or have this feature disabled in the forum configuration please?
It does it if you try and quote the whole post. Just highlight a single sentence or two, or use the reply button.
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That is my point. When the entire post I’m quoting is only a single sentence, it deletes it. It’s too agressive. For example I quoted your post (one sentence), and I’m expecting the forum will probably delete it.
It’s also deleting the reply name, when it does this. The behavior is breaking the continuity. Especially in longer threads, its making them more difficult to follow who the responses are to. We’re losing context.
There was a thread about it yesterday (ish). It’s the built in behaviour of Discourse I believe and can’t be changed IIRC.
Just checked the Discourse site. The feature can be disabled with “remove full quote” site setting.
While searching I also discovered that it apparently only removes the full quote if the reply is immediately following the post being quoted. I’m not sure that part is working correct though. I swear I’ve seen it do this when I replied and quoted a single line reply several down the thread.
Either way I think it’s a bit too draconian. A better forum software would automatically expand/collapse thread hierarchy to reduce clutter. Or at least have some better logic to only delete the full post quote if it exceeds a certain line length.
I would like to request forum admins to disable the feature so we can maintain better control of our reply and keep the context inline.
