@polotek this is exactly what I miss about them on here. Quotes are a way to say "yes, and..." and jump off one thing to start another conversation without derailing, interrupting, or clogging up the OP's mentions with tangential replies.
I've been the subject of quote-pile-ons before, so I get the concern. But in my experience, people who want to be weird jerks will use whatever tool is handy.
@Annalee @polotek and before a QT button existed on the other site, it was just a text link to the OP. Then they added what amounts to a fancy link preview _with a notification to the OP_.
You can still do the text link here. Some clients will even do the fancy link preview.
But there's no notification to the OP that _that's_ why they might get a flood of replies from randos, so the experience here is _actually worse_.