Rather than stray further off that particular topic I thought I would post your query here BD.Bandung_Dero wrote:Lee, is there a way to stop quotes from being edited?
I have a feeling that once someone presses the 'Quote' button that the quotation becomes editable text.
Lee might know of an add on that is available that prevents that but without that I do not think it is possible.
I think that posters sometimes hit the Quote button & then just start typing oblivious to the fact that their words are being added to the quotation, rather than a response to it. So, in most cases I believe that it is accidental, rather than deliberate. If I or any of the other Mods see an obvious accident occurrence in our general reading then we would normally edit the post without saying anything.
Deliberate alteration of quotations for malicious purposes is often rather more difficult to catch just by a bit of general reading. However it is also clearly against the Forum Rules & if any member reports the post then it will be removed & appropriate action taken against the poster.
In general I actually think that posters re-quote other posters far to often & often unnecessarily. When answering the post above I, personally, find it annoying when a member finds it necessary to re-quote the complete post that is immediately before it. Indeed I usually limit myself to re-quoting someone when I am only answering a specific part of their post, in what might be a post containing a number of differing points....Unfortunately, in order to do that I need the ability to edit the quotation....
which does make it a difficult problem to solve in every case!!!
