User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-1411998-20120727231204/@comment-4674838-20120728231459

Mitranim says: "... It's perfectly reasonable to expect people to click the link to instantly see the post the reply is adressed at ..."

If by "perfectly reasonable" you mean "utterly unreasonable", then yes, we could agree. Forcing the user to have their screen scrolled up *away* from what they're reading to see what's being quoted -- or worse: going through another page load when the link is clicked -- is The. Worst. Possible. Thing.

It needs to be in front of the face, front and center.

You don't re-read an entire long post. It's called skimming. It takes about 1 or 2 seconds of reading something before you can tell that it's something you just read.