I am a bit unsure about how to go with this, and I’m not sure it should be specified in the same document (though admittedly the current draft already defines multiple concerns and could be split in multiple documents, e.g. quote post representation, privacy policy definition, and approval mechanism for quote posts).
Honestly, I would have liked to avoid specifying that, but it does make sense. This does bring a few UX challenges though:
- automatically adding text to the user’s post without them explicitly putting it there seems a little iffy to me
- when quote posts are supported, the extra text is redundant… so we probably want to automatically remove it
The simplest actual solution I have seen in the wild for the latter is what (at least some versions of) akkoma does:
<span class="quote-inline"><br/><br/>RE: <a href="quoteUrl">quoteUrl</a></span>
We could say that a client could hide the quote-inline class of posts that are known to have attached quotes (verified or otherwise).