07-04-2024, 01:24 AM
Though my suggestion was not as simple to implement as I hoped, thanks everyone for entertaining it and/or me. 
Would it be too extreme to remove the individual Reply button showing up on each post? We'd definitely leave the Quote button which can be used for one quote or multiple. That button already has to be followed up by clicking New Reply. If we remove the per-post Reply button, people would use New Reply when responding to a post, which by default does not quote a specific post!
I don't think most people intend to quote, but they click the nearest button to respond to the message. I don't typically expect a Reply button to insert a quote with most forum software I've used. Users can still quote every reply if they want, but this limits it to those who intentionally do so. That probably would not be enough people to gripe about.
Would it be too extreme to remove the individual Reply button showing up on each post? We'd definitely leave the Quote button which can be used for one quote or multiple. That button already has to be followed up by clicking New Reply. If we remove the per-post Reply button, people would use New Reply when responding to a post, which by default does not quote a specific post!
I don't think most people intend to quote, but they click the nearest button to respond to the message. I don't typically expect a Reply button to insert a quote with most forum software I've used. Users can still quote every reply if they want, but this limits it to those who intentionally do so. That probably would not be enough people to gripe about.