The system has started editing tons of posts, i assume it’s systematically working from the beginning of time forward since i’ve seen Nov 2017 posts coming through.
They are editing out previously quoted text, which is rather dumb. If i’m quoting someone, it’s because i’m trying to respond to them or what they say.
Now @PGCrisis, why is the system doing this? Did something happen in the past 3 days to start this? And can we get it to stop so that we don’t lose context in threads we have responded to?
What the heck??? Ummm, that is a bit of a major issue. @HAWK Is this intended behavior for the forums? There was a reason why things were quoted in the first place, so why is Discourse removing the quotes?
So far it only seems to do this to my posts when I quoted the full post directly above.
Still feels like a somewhat useless bot, but not a lot of context is lost unless the person you reply to edits their post.
Yes this is deliberate and expected. We’re removing quotes when the entire post is quoted in the very next response. In those cases there is no need to quote (because you’re replying to the whole post) so the additional text creates unnecessary noise (and can cost a performance hit in huge topics).
If someone edits their post then the edit history is viewable. There is also an admin setting to prevent people from coming back and editing their posts.
guessing not.