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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-should-we-limit-quoted-text-in-a-post/32246>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Août 18, 2015, 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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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [Août 18, 2015, 8:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-should-we-limit-quoted-text-in-a-post/32246/3 "2015-08-18T20:33:01Z")

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I am using Discourse as a Learning Management System. I put an assignment in a post and have students answer/respond to it by reply-as-linked-topic and put their answer in a new category. A (related?) problem that I have is that by default the whole message in the response. When I ask them not to, what often happens is that the link to the original message is lost, so it’s not always obvious which message they are responding to. A per-category limit to quote length might help me.

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