I realize that I'm a bit new here, but I'd like to offer my opinion, if I may?

I don't know much about bbs boards, and my experience with them in the past has been mainly vBulletin boards. That being said, I like the vBulletin option of replying to the general thread rather than to an exclusive post. I also like the way that quotes are tagged, with credit to the quoter above the quote area (see example below).