In other forums, there is a button to reply to a previous post, which quotes the previous post as well as providing the previous post’s user name and a link to the previous post in the reply.
Now, as I understand it, this forum does not want to make quoting that convenient, presumably to avoid someone quoting many dozens of lines and adding a one word comment.
But can a reply button that adds a reference to a previous post without a quote (e.g. “In reply to by @someotherforum_user …”) be added? This would make it easier for readers to follow who is replying to whom, especially in high volume threads.