[RussEfarmer]

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

It does, but what I don't like is how it automatically brings up the entire quote when you hit Reply. If it is going to do that, a spoiler tag should be added to help improve legibility. 

I might have not been completely clear on that like I thought I was, but that's my issue. The problem is most people aren't courteous and do NOT clean up the quote, that's why I think that there could be a way to improve this through the action of either NOT having the reply button automatically quote someone, or by having it snip it through recoding. Does that make better sense as to what I am trying to say?

Yeah that makes more sense specifically, definitely really annoying when someone is replying to only a specific part of a post but quote the whole thing. I've always gotten into the habit of replying but selecting and backspacing what I don't care about out.. not really to be more courteous to users but it just makes a lot more sense reading it when everything is relevant
Having it like reddit where you can collapse reply chains would be nice
You may not like it but we're still a lot better off than some forums.. a lot of forums I've been on don't even have PAGES, you'd have a 150 post like thread and have to scroll through the whole thing to find a post you want