Hello, Glad to be a part of this community. I have been getting familiar with the front end of discourse on a site I frequent and have recently discovered that users can alter the text from quoted posts making it look like other users are saying things they did not say. The quote values appear in …

Below is an example of what I am talking about [image] Myrrdin: Any advise is EDITED QUOTE greatly appreciated Seems that any user in the db can do this to another persons quote

[image] Myrrdin: All your base are belong to us Case and point, as an admin of the aforementioned forum, this has become an issue

We add a special CSS class for quotes that have been tampered with: .quote-modified. If this is a problem on your community, you can edit your theme and add a different color, add a warning text, or even completely hide bad quotes.

Quoted Post Edit Bug

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Dustin_Powers (Dustin Powers) January 9, 2021, 10:37pm 3

Case and point, as an admin of the aforementioned forum, this has become an issue

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