# 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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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2015 年8 月 18 日 20:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-should-we-limit-quoted-text-in-a-post/32246/4 "2015-08-18T20:43:38Z")

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> [@carninglipartners](#):
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks  
> Dan

Quoted for truth! 😉

But seriously, as you said – a non-Discourse forum – this is usually because that _non-Discourse_ forum makes it too easy to do the “wrong” thing.

It is a good idea to block very long quotes or otherwise suppress them, perhaps even warn the user if they quote a giant post.

I just haven’t seen that much “in the wild” though so I am leery of making changes on the basis of imagined behavior versus actual behavior.

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