Size of discuss_posts table

I understand one of the problems with EasyDiscuss is the size of the discuss_posts table. In my case the discuss_posts table is bigger in MB than the content table which contains far fewer records. One contributing factor is the fact that on my site, most EasyDiscuss threads/discussions are created via the Joomla Content plugin which turns EasyDiscuss in a commenting extension for my Joomla Content section. The problem I'm having is that EasyDiscuss always copies the entire maintext into the first EasyDiscuss post. Not only does that make the posting slower, to an extent that sometimes the posting (and replying) times out, but it makes the discuss_posts table unnecessary big. On my site, which contains 350 tables, and a content table with over 15,000 records, the discuss_posts table accounts for more than half of the entire database. What is more, it is very undesirable, to have this kind of duplication of content. I would much prefer it, if the content plugin only copied the introtext plus readmore link into the first entry of the discussion.