Do you mean with email replies? That’s always been true because most people don’t trim out the original message. See this post (and the rest of the topic) for more detail.
Nope. I never use email replies. I’m talking actual replies in here through the web interface. Just the other day I noticed that a bot made an edit in which it stripped out the quote. Curious to see if it will do it here too, although, perhaps it won’t because I only quoted a segment of your post.
Hmm! Unless you select some text before clicking one of the two Reply buttons (to reply to a post or to the topic in general), nothing will be quoted. That has always been true in Discourse.
Yes, that’s exactly the point. I select text to quote, then hit quote. Add my reply to the quote and post. Later I see that the post was edited by a bot that says it’s stripping out the quote of the preceding post.
Since it didn’t strip out the quote I just made before (or just not quite yet?), I guess it only does so if you quote the entire post. Which makes obvious sense if you’re replying to a long post, but hard not to do if the post you’re replying to is very short.
(And perhaps this sidebar should be broken off from the chair thread and instead transferred to the site feedback section?)
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You’re right—I had no idea. Discourse automatically removes quotes of the whole previous post.
I’ll turn this off for now to see what happens, but I may manually trim quotes if they seem excessive, and if that happens a lot, turn the setting back on.
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That has been my experience as well. I quoted the entirety of a response because it was all relevant and was short. It was removed. I added it again and added ellipses at the beginning and at the end and it stayed quoted.
I always use quoted material so that there is no confusion about which information I am responding to.
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I think the theory is that if you’re responding directly under a post, quoting it all is just clutter since the exact same text appears directly above.
When reading a reply, I prefer to always see a tightly quoted snippet of the post being replied to so that I don’t have to re-read the entire post to figure out the difference between the original and reply posts.
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Yes, in the case where you want to respond to a specific section of a post definitely. But in that case Discourse doesn’t remove the quote. The situation being discussed in this thread is when someone quotes the entire post immediately above. In that case (as with this reply) including the whole post in a quote is clutter.
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Unfortunately, in doing so, it also removes the in-message links that indicate what you’re replying to (is it to a comment or to the topic in general?)
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