# What happened to the quote text speech bubble?

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**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424 "2025-02-17T18:29:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quote-text-speech-bubble/1014424/80 "2025-02-24T19:25:35Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> Have they ever uploaded something?

Yep. All of the images in this post, for example.

> [@Straight Dope 4/21/2023: Is Canada poised for world domination due to climate change?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straight-dope-4-21-2023-is-canada-poised-for-world-domination-due-to-climate-change/983027):
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> Is Canada poised for world domination due to climate change? You think this is a joke, don’t you? That’s what the Canadians want you to think. But make no mistake. Someday they’ll run it all. Well, maybe not all. But they have a good shot at becoming a world power and dominating central North America owing to their control of railroads, banks, and the Great Lakes. If that’s where you live, you’d better learn to love hockey and practice saying “oot and aboot.” What, you’re not buying this? You…

> [@Pleonast](#):
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> I don’t see the value in exposing a capability that almost no one is allowed to use and the few that could use it don’t exercise it. It’s a high-risk, low-reward design choice.

The default for Discourse is to allow users at higher trust levels to upload images and files. The only people we allow at higher trust levels are mods, admins, and Cecil. So we basically get the behavior that we want as the Discourse default just by the way that we have set up trust levels here.

We don’t tinker with the themes ourselves. We let the Discourse staff handle that. We’re not going to be putting anything custom into the themes here, other than what they have already set up for us.

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