User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-1411998-20120727231204/@comment-4674838-20120728195020

Mitranim says: "... Hyperlinks offer a perfect functionality for it ..."

No. Permalinks back to the original post are necessary, but not sufficient. It is needed to see what is being replied to + the reply in the same place. Without that basic feature, everything else is pointless.

If you want to reply with link (but not put what you're quoting in your post), you can always make the link yourself. But I really don't think you're on the right side of the argument if you're trying to put your ideology up against a feature (quoting) that has stood the test of time on forums, verbal communications and literature.

That's not saying I disagree with your ideas -- many of them are good. But the solution you're advocating is not sufficient.