Forum Auto-Editing Quotes Out Of My Posts

Mulsiphix1 · September 9, 2019, 1:11am

This has happened a couple of times in the last two days. I will quote a post (in both cases the entire post, but the post was small) and then respond to it. As soon as I post it, the quote is gone. I receive a notification showing that “system” has edited my post. But it doesn’t say why. If I re-edit the post, the quote then appears. Any idea what is triggering this editing behavior? Am I doing something wrong? (example post)

BHydden · September 9, 2019, 1:21am

Discourse will automatically remove a quote that is “the entire most recent post” I assume just to keep things clean. As you discovered, you can force include it by editing it back in.

Kosh · September 9, 2019, 8:17am

For those that don’t know, if you select the “Reply” option attached to a particular post (rather than the blue “Reply” at the bottom of a thread) then you get a link attached to the top of your post to the one you are replying to. The link allows readers to see the post you are replying to (in a collapsible form) and also gives them the option of jumping to that point in the thread.

Especially for someone looking over a thread at a later date, excessive repetition impedes functionality. imho.

BHydden · September 9, 2019, 8:24am

Pretty sure Discourse also deletes the ‘reply’ if it was to the previous comment

^ exhibit A

yebellz · September 9, 2019, 4:47pm

I view it as Discourse only inserting the the reply link if the item being replied to isn’t the immediately previous thing. I think this is just to keep things less cluttered, but the person being replied to still gets the notification.

Mulsiphix1 · September 9, 2019, 4:54pm

I fully understand now. Thank you fine folks for help with this .

Conrad_Melville · September 9, 2019, 11:27pm

I have found the the individualized reply option has been very erratic in the past (yes, I know the icon is omitted if it is the immediately previous item). So I generally like to quote. Perhaps the problem was fixed. Don’t know. Let’s see if this one works.

BHydden · September 9, 2019, 11:35pm

This has also been my adopted work-around

yebellz · September 10, 2019, 2:46am

I wonder what happens if I reply to myself. Do I get a notification? Or do I just get to look conceited with a self-link?

I really like this Discourse software. Well thought out and modern design, and it works well on both desktop and mobile.

Edit: no reply notification for self-replies, which is what I expected.

BHydden · September 10, 2019, 4:16am

At least you still get to look conceited