# 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:** [May 14, 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")
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### 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: [May 15, 2019, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-quoting-early-posts-and-why-its-so-needed-for-big-communities/117713/7 "2019-05-15T00:17:36Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Most people express themselves in a reasonable way with their replies, such that you do not _need_ to see a giant quote to understand the point they are trying to make.

But you don’t need to see a giant quote if it is not displayed completely on page as I said. You can limit this just like embed topics. The person who’s replying can use citation too if its a big post.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I feel like you’re trending toward chatroom type behaviors

No, I’m not (if I want the type of behavior, [Babble exists](https://meta.discourse.org/t/babble-a-chat-plugin/87297), right). That was just an extreme example if the topic the other day had more people engaged in a real discussion. Here in official Discourse is easy to go along cause its surges new replies after 20-30 min that you quote someone. If one day you interact in a big community who uses Discourse you may get what I mean.

Anyway, thanks for your time.

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