No need to apologise Barbara, I think I know what's happened here.
Warning, potential "mansplaining" here (I dislike the abuse of that already silly term - are we supposed to assume everyone always has perfect knowledge of every basic thing these days online?) :
I'm guessing you are posting from a smartphone?
I say this because you cannot see a way to quickly post without the default of quoting in regular vertical mode - at least on my screen - other bigger higher resolution screens might be different?
Put your phone in horizontal (on its side - mansplaining or expedient clarity?) mode you can see more pixels in the horizontal bar. Scroll to the bottom look to the right. You will see the option to reply there. With this option you won't have a quote of the previous person, just a blank window to fill.
FWIW for the most part I think the default quoting is actually a good idea.
Last edited by Key Fumbler (09-10-2022 07:07)