Limit size of quote showing in replies

[tawnygirl]

I've asked if this was possible before, and since it doesn't seem to be (due to lack of reply), I'm hoping there's someone out there with the ability to build a hack or mod or whatever LOL.

We have some members that just do not get how obtrusive it is to quote an ENTIRE post, when really only a few lines are relevant to their reply.

I would very much like to limit the amount of the quoted post that shows in the reply, is there any way to do this? I've searched all the mod forums and can't find anything.

I'm running Vers. 3.6.4

Thanks in advance for any help on this!:up:

Ideally, since I'm making a wish list here, it would be really cool if a user could click and drag to select the portion of the post they'd like to quote, so that once they click the quote button, their selection is the only part that will show. Is this something that's possible using AJAX?

(I've written tutorials on how to ONLY include 'some' text in your quoted reply, I guess it's too much work for some, or they wind up breaking the bbcode... any alternative solutions are also very welcome!)