Rule probably needs to be modified a bit...it was written before the DUmp had super secret closed pages on FB. Of someone were a member of that page...linking to a post from there would out the mole.
I suspect you may be talking eggs, while we're talking lemons here, sir.
GOBUCKS' and franksolich's complaint pertains to threads brought over from Skins's island; it's handy to have the time and date included in the "quotes".
It was easier with the old DU, than it is now, but after doing it enough times, I don't think it takes me at least any longer than it used to.
If comments were posted on Skins's island in the usual customary sequential chronological order, it wouldn't be a problem. But they're not.
I suspect Skins and Elad chose the system they did, because they knew the primitives are cerebrally incapable of using any "quote" function; for them, it's too complicated to do that.