# \[quote=reply issues\] without adding additional text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-issues-without-adding-additional-text/214366>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/quote-reply-issues-without-adding-additional-text/214366 "2022-01-10T12:09:52Z")\
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> [@tob1wan](#):
>
> the intention is […] you should not be able to respond with a quote

A post that only contains a quote from another post and nothing else doesn’t add much to the conversation. Post quotes are stripped out when calculating the post length. So, the post length is effectively 0 if that’s all the post contains. That’s why you see that error. It’s been that way for a long time.

[Quoting another reply won't satisfy the minimum character count (fixes #180) by ZogStriP · Pull Request #304 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/304)

When you quote a post in Discourse, you get this in the composer.

```plaintext
[quote="user, post:1, topic:558"]
some quote...
[/quote]

```

All of those characters are not counted.

See here

[discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/lib/quote.js at 1472e47aae5bfdfb6fd9abfe89beb186c751f514 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/1472e47aae5bfdfb6fd9abfe89beb186c751f514/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/lib/quote.js#L1)

and here

[discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/models/composer.js at 91a816e788cc59395dba9a74c96e2e632d8caf15 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/91a816e788cc59395dba9a74c96e2e632d8caf15/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/models/composer.js#L567-L572)

This is very different from a generic quote like this

```plaintext
> Most people do not need more space, they need less stuff. ― Michelle Ogundehin

```

which renders

> Most people do not need more space, they need less stuff. ― Michelle Ogundehin

since I’m presumably adding to the conversation rather than reposting something from another post without adding to it.

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