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I've been having problems with people OVER-QUOTING on my forums. It's so bad that some replies are 2 screens long and 2 screens wide.
Desperatly, I tried my first XOOPS modification, I commented out the 5 lines below, and the automatic quoting feature has finally disappeared.
Now, what I'm wondering, is would it be able to make it a forum option whether or not to have automatic quotes allowed/disallowed?
My reason behind banning AUTOMATIC quotes is:
(quoted from my website)
Quote:
I have disabled the quoting feature. You can still quote things manually by entering "[ quote ] and [ /quote ]" (minus the spaces).
Anything I can do to reduce the amount of quoting will increase the fluidity of the conversation, making topics interesting to read.
Whenever someone quotes something from above, the person who reads the topic has to read the same thing twice in a row, which is pointless and automatically guaranteed to be boring.
If you really need to reply to something from three posts ago, kindly take a moment to compose a decent English sentence ("When Fred said blah, he must not have considered..."), don't litter the place with unnecessary <<<>>>s.
Here is the code I modified within reply.php:
if (!preg_match("/^Re:/i",$r_subject)) {
$subject = 'Re: '.$myts->htmlSpecialChars($r_subject);
} else {
$subject = $myts->htmlSpecialChars($r_subject);
}
//$q_message = $forumpost->text("Quotes");
//$hidden = "[ quote]\n";
//$hidden .= sprintf(_MD_USERWROTE,$r_name);
//$hidden .= "\n".$q_message."[ /quote]";
//$message = "";
themecenterposts($r_subject,$r_content);
echo "<br />";
$pid=$post_id;
