# Can we, should we, limit quoted text in a post?

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**Created:** [2015 年8 月 18 日 12:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-should-we-limit-quoted-text-in-a-post/32246 "2015-08-18T12:59:03Z")\
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发布日期： [2015 年8 月 18 日 12:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-should-we-limit-quoted-text-in-a-post/32246/1 "2015-08-18T12:59:03Z")

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I am active on a non-Discourse forum where many members will respond to a (sometimes long) post by quoting it in its entirety and then adding one line at the bottom. “I agree” and “+1” are typical responses. It’s not pretty, or easy to navigate.

Clearly better member education would help. Also I suspect that the ease of quoting in replies in a Discourse forum would reduce the tendency to over-quote previous posts.

Still, I would be interested in your views on whether Discourse can - or should - restrict the length of a quote, either through an absolute character limit or via the ratio of quoted to “new” text.

Thanks  
Dan

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