Sorry Daphne, I am just not an SJI person and boy does that topic get a lot of discussion. Being able to mute a thread (so I do not get any notifications that there is a new post) would be lovely.
The only reason you should be getting a notification that there's a new post is if you subscribed to it. Or are you referring to the "New" indicator?
Obviously I can quote, but it doesn't have a link back to the post that it's replying to (which could be from a ways down the thread).
But it does. If you leave the link= in the quote tag, it links back to the post that you are quoting. Or do you mean something else?
Agreed, though, that it's not full threading where each post points back to the post being replied to. On the other hand, often posts are replies to more than one post, and the quote tag does handle that situation.