Quotations don’t count toward the post minimum character limit, but should

[rokejulianlockhart]

For instance, I can’t have a post solely containing

@sam

Welcome to meta, our official discussion site for Discourse . You’ll find topics on features, bugs, hosting, development, and general support here.

[quote="Sam Saffron, post:1, topic:1, username:sam"]
Welcome to meta, our official discussion site for [Discourse ](http://www.discourse.org). You’ll find topics on features, bugs, hosting, development, and general support here.
[/quote]

despite there being occasions when a title itself is adequate.

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

I feel like this is intentional, so someone can’t just quote someone else’s reply.

EX

@User A

I feel like this is a good feature

@User B

@User A

I feel like this is a good feature

User A would now be confused if User B is agreeing with them, or if they had a comment and forgot to type it.

Also, I feel like it’d be abused for character bypass. (Not like there aren’t plenty of ways to do that already)

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Firepup650

Also, I feel like it’d be abused for character bypass. (Not like there aren’t plenty of ways to do that already)

Yeah, that limitation is fundamentally quite silly though - if someone wants to bypass it, they’ll just type gibberish.

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

@rokejulianlockhart

Yeah, that limitation is fundamentally quite silly though

I disagree, for bug reports for example, it’s a good idea to have a minimum to encourage more detail.

Also, it discourages, for example, a post with just a

@rokejulianlockhart

if someone wants to bypass it, they’ll just type gibberish.

Or use zero width spaces, or empty HTML tags, or empty spoilers, etc. I get your point (bypasses will bypass), but still.

[Arkshine]

I believe that explaining a quote makes it more engaging to users than simply dropping it in.

[JammyDodger]

I much prefer some extra context rather than just dropping a quote in. It is still possible to do if you onebox a post, so I’d actually go the other way and tighten that up if I could.

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

Just as a PoC (Next post is a onebox):

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

Quotations don’t count toward the post minimum character limit, but should

I much prefer some extra context rather than just dropping a quote in. It is still possible to do if you onebox a post, so I’d actually go the other way and tighten that up if I could.

[rokejulianlockhart]

@JammyDodger

onebox a post

As in, by posting a link, @JammyDodger? If that’s indeed possible, yes, that should be fixed whilst the rules remain in place. I do wish this rule was disabled by default, though.

[maiki]

I’ve run into the character limit a lot since working on external integrations, as well as AI Personas in Discourse. Often I want to start a topic or PM with only the quoted text, so a pre-configured API call does something with it.

I end up writing something additional, since I did not want to remove the limit on the sites I’m using. Sharing as a data point.