WaitroseCarpark asked if it’s possible to make the “Reply to post” button display a quote of the original post by default. codinghorror suggested using the quote toolbar button or selecting the text to be quoted, but noted that full quotes should generally be avoided to prevent duplicating large parts of the conversation. However, WaitroseCarpark clarified that their forum has short-form conversations, and users expect the reply button to display the entire post. They asked if it’s possible to implement this behavior for their forum. codinghorror reiterates the use of the quote toolbar button, and later states (codinghorror) that they don’t know of a way to change the reply button’s behavior to quote the whole post by default.
I’m sure this has been asked a million times and I have searched for it…but was wondering if I click the reply to post button I can see who I’m replying to, but not the content of the post.
Is there any way of making the default behaviour of this button to quote the full message the user is replying to instead of just displaying the avatar?
Why would you need this?
press the quote toolbar button in the editor (it’s the first button in the toolbar) to issue a full quote
select the text of the post you wish to quote, then press any reply button (or the quote button that pops up), and that will be quoted
Full quotes should generally be avoided as a rule, since they duplicate huge chunks of the conversation.
I understand the intention of the quote functionality, but in my forum the users don’t generally make long replies, it’s more like short-form IM conversations of a line or so so there is no danger of huge chunks of the conversation being repeated. They’ve caught on pretty quick to the ‘select to quote’ functionality when replying to longer text.
From feedback I think their expectation is that clicking the reply button displays the entire post. Is it possible to somehow implement this for my forum?
Just click or tap the toolbar button, as previously indicated. It’s the first one.
Rather, is there a way to change the reply button behave like the ‘Quote whole post’ button? As that’s my users’ expectation.
Not that I know of, no.