Re: suggestion to not repeat what comment is responding to..

Posted by GregChapman on Nov 03, 2012; 1:15pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/suggestion-to-not-repeat-what-comment-is-responding-to-tp7581794p7581797.html

It sounds as if some of those posting on your forum are subscribed via email.

Many of these people will accept their email program defaults and "top post" their reply above a full quotation of the original message.

There is nothing you can do to control this at source except persuade your contributors that "top posting" is a hideous crime and they should never quote the full text of an original post when replying to any mail list. At most they should only include a quote of the sentence or phrase necessary to put their reply in context.

Once a top-posted reply has appeared on your forum all you can do is turn on the administrator-only permission "Edit_all". This will allow those with administrator rights to edit the contributor's post and remove the unnecessary quotation.