Hey @Mods, can you change the forum site setting suppress_reply_when_quoting back to the default value of true? We messed with the site settings a bit back when first moving to Discourse, but I think we’d be better served by going back to the default on this one. The description of the setting is:
Don’t show the expandable in-reply-to on a post when post quotes reply.
Basically, when you reply to someone, that is shown so you can easily get to the post being replied to. But when you are quoting someone you already have a way back to that post via the quote. Also, sometimes you’re quoting multiple people, but in many cases the first person you quoted would be set to the “in-reply-to” post even though in all likelihood that post isn’t more important than any of the other ones also being quoted in the reply. Turning this setting back to the default value to true will remove the “in-reply-to” part when it is the same post you are already quoting, removing this redundancy and saving people (or at least me) from having to do this manually.
This is really annoying, especially when you’re the one being quoted! You get a notification that someone replied to your post, but they actually replied to like 10 different people and you have to scroll through all the quotes to find where they quoted you
But… the alternative is you get a notification that you were quoted and you still have to look through the post to find the part where someone replied to you
Not sure how beneficial this change would be, but honestly, I‘m completely indifferent about what the setting is
Just to make sure I’m understanding this right, if I change the setting and click on the box to ‘don’t show the expandable in-reply-to on a post when post quotes reply’, the top right link back to the person someone quoted will be removed?
Good point, I guess I just dislike it anyway.