# Auto-quota dei post iniziali e perché è così necessaria per le grandi comunità **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [14 Maggio 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713 "2019-05-14T16:03:02Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![Merlls\_Rizzini](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merlls_rizzini/32/125604_2.png) [@Merlls\_Rizzini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Merlls_Rizzini) #### Post date: [14 Maggio 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713/4 "2019-05-14T18:13:44Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#): > > It sounds like you’re suggesting that previous quotes are _removed_ when a post containing quotes is quoted? I mean, if it has a lot quotes on it, it get really ugly and confuse, no? Two or three seems fine. Nothing prevents me or others members from quoting a post with six quotes inside already, though. > [@awesomerobot](#): > > When replying to a post that’s far away (like 300 posts earlier), and someone doesn’t include a quote, automatically quote the full text of the old post. Yes. But if someone quote a really big post (just like yours), I also suggest that you would need to expand to see it (same behavior i seen on embed topics in Discourse). It would keep it clean. > [@Auto-quoting early posts and why its so needed for big communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713): > > Continuing the discuss from here: [Unfortunately I had to pull the plug](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unfortunately-i-had-to-pull-the-plug/117508/64) Let me try to explain the main issue here. (sorry for any bad grammar). A topic has 500 replies. Imagine I’m right now reading post #488. Someone replies an early post… post #140 without quoting it, cause sometimes while you’re in a conversation, doing it several times can be exhausting or you forgot to (click in reply, then clicking in quote button inside editor). In desktop, if i want to know the context in this reply … > [@awesomerobot](#): > > As a new user to forums with long topics, I’ve always found them overwhelming and annoying… so I ignore them completely. I’m talking about my experience here in Discourse as well. This topic has more than 400 replies. I started reading it from beginning to end and I need to click to expand some replies (I’m not talking about two or three replies, but more than a few). And if I’m on mobile I get redirected to the reply I want to see, then I hit BACK button to continue my reading, then get redirected again to understand _again_ what they’re were talking about when I see a reply without quote, then… you get my point? It’s even more exhausting (I think?) for discussions that are going on in a big flux of posts. I’ll explain above. > [@Topic List Previews (legacy)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/101646): > > This is now a Theme Component, the plugin is deprecated The new Topic is [Topic List Previews Theme Component - theme - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews-theme-component/209973/1) [GitHub-Mark-32px] [Repository: get the code here](https://github.com/merefield/discourse-topic-list-previews-theme) See further here: [Pavilion](https://thepavilion.io/t/which-one-to-install-plugin-or-tc/3996?u=merefield) [sandbox] Examples: check out the list further down. [raising_hand_woman Request a feature](https://thepavilion.io/w/feature-request)[bug Report a bug](https://thepavilion.io/w/bug-report)heart Donate: we are reviewing our donations system. Please check back later :). man_technologist Maintainers: @merefieldOverview Topic List Previews allows you to: … > [@awesomerobot](#): > > we could pop up a dialog that says “300 posts have been made after the post you’re replying to, consider adding a quote to remind people what you’re responding to.” So, that would help here in Discourse and quieter forums in activity. Yesterday this topic got 70 replies in just a few hours. Imagine if more members joined this discussion and it exceeded more than 300 replies? With at least 15 members quoting early posts from different times (to participate into the discussion as well) while you’re still debating? You would click **fifteen times** to expand it to understand the context from those new replies if they weren’t in the mood to quote inside the editor. Then more fifteen new posts for you to click to expand to see replies/get the context again, then more fifteen… If the quote were automatic in these cases, it would be more comfortable to you. > [@Unfortunately I had to pull the plug](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unfortunately-i-had-to-pull-the-plug/117508): > > After a year of laying the groundwork by migrating to a VPS and setting up a test environment, I finally moved my old (10 years), large (1mil posts) PHPBB forum to Discourse back in February. It was a big task involving a lot of work, from getting the migration script to run against phpbb3.2 through to getting Docker to work nicely with my VPS and other sites. I’ve always been a big advocate of Discourse, I think it’s great. But sadly I had to pull the plug about a month ago and move my commun… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713)._