Not sure if this behaviour is correct since it can be used maliciously. The bug is exactly what is described as in the title. For clarity sake here’s a rundown.
I have made a post under #forum-help:forum-questions and the below image is a comment someone made regarding my subject. If you ask me, I should not be able to edit the comment, right? Well, for some reason I can.
↓ When I highlight the quote, an edit button appears and I am able to edit the quote.
I am a member (TL1) so I am not sure why I am able to do that, thus the subject of this post and it being in the bug report category. So far, I think I am able to conclude that this behaviour only is replicable when you are the original poster as I was unable to replicate the behaviour on posts that I was not the original poster of.
You mean you can edit the quote that’s already in plain text in your own reply, like you’ve always been able to?
I.e.
[quote="goldencowboy, post:1, topic:1632903"]
Not sure if this behaviour is correct since it can be used maliciously. The *bug* is exactly what is described as in the title. For clarity sake here’s a rundown.
[/quote]
Like this?
Quotes are nothing special, they’re just styled text. This is not a bug. You would want to make a feature request with Discourse to have this changed since this would require turning quotes into something a lot more heavy than copied text.
Unfortunately, as PeZsmistic says, quotes really are just text which is copied and pasted into a special format. Pasting a link to a topic or reply is more secure, but then you cannot abbreviate the text, which I actually believe is why you are allowed to edit quotes.
You can click on the header of a quote to see the unedited source. Otherwise, we just have to trust that nobody is abusing the quote feature to twist words.
