[RussEfarmer]

I'm a little confused as to what the heck we are talking about... does this not make perfect sense?


You want to add a reply to the thread you press the new reply button, and the thread isn't quoted because it's implied you are replying to the parent topic... to reply to a specific post you press the reply button on that post, and that quotes the post, otherwise how are readers supposed to know what the poster is replying to? You yourself have been using quotes to reply to people in this thread... and it makes perfect sense to read; you quote the post you are responding to, and your response goes at the bottom so the reader can read it in sequential order, that's how forums have worked since they were invented

Now obviously reply chains get pretty big and as Nicol said other forums fix this problem by making previous replies collapsible. Our forums don't do that, but courteous users have found ways of helping clutter by snipping replies that aren't relevant in what they are saying or by using spoiler tags (but no one does this because theres no button)