# Auto-quoting early posts and why its so needed for big communities

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [5월 14, 2019, 4:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713 "2019-05-14T16:03:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheBestPessimist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thebestpessimist/32/247704_2.png) [@TheBestPessimist](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TheBestPessimist)\
**Post date:** [5월 15, 2019, 5:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713/10 "2019-05-15T05:29:33Z")

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What if you would show the first line of text that is not a quote:

- post 1 has text
- post 113 quotes (and/or replies to) something from post 1
- post 1546 quotes (and/or replies to) something from post 113
  - here you can show (just like a normal quote does) the first few words of post 113(lets say the first 2 lines of text?), but which are not part of the quote of post 1. (post 1 is not shown at all in the preview. it is only shown IF the user clicks on the preview)

i think this would bring quite a lot of context, without adding much noise (making the “show replied to post” appear a quote).  
This improvement would also be related to my own issue: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-post-ive-replied-to-has-somewhat-bad-ux/117545](https://meta.discourse.org/t/check-post-ive-replied-to-has-somewhat-bad-ux/117545) as it would make (at least for the user) the “quote” and “reply to post” previews the same, and act in the same way. And having the user learn how only 1 thing works, instead of 2 seems like a good achievement in the _ease of use_ category.

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