Add quoting of posts on the message boards

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As discussed here:

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000040/nest/216954311?d=222106449#222106449

It'd be good to have better quoting of posts on the message boards.

You could have a "quote" option under the "reply" that would automatically fill in the quote tags with the content of the post you are replying to.

Even better would be if you could add a link back to the quoted topic, which is handy because some nested discussion can mean the original is back on a previous page and it can be tricky searching for it to see if someone is being quoted out of context or to see what they are replying to. Something that'd look like this:

[link=comment-222106449]ppllkk said:[/link]

[quote]I recently posted to Chowhound

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/760377

and I noticed that they automatically say which poster you are
replying to.

That would be a really nice feature for those of us who find
"nest" more trouble than it is worth, and people don't usually
say what they are replying to and almost never do they say whom
they are applying to.

I have been told that it should not be difficult to implement,
and it would certainly increase the intelligibility of discussions.
[/quote]

In case that isn't clear, it is standard on a lot of message boards, and you can see it on the community site for one of them:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=512335.msg3620183#msg3620183
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