said by drew:If people were to use the proper reply buttons (you didn't, by the way), it would not be taken out of context.
If people are so inclined to use the "wrong" one, then that's just another failure of the forum software.
It's not just the out of context problem. It takes forever if you wish to find the post in its place within the middle of a 5000 post thread.
I just cannot see a single reason to ever link to a post without the surrounding conversation.
I VASTLY prefer the way DSLR's forum software behaves to the off-the-shelf BB systems like vBulletin, phpBB, SMF, etc.
But you haven't given a reason why. Is it for the same "no clutter" argument stated above?