Private Messages: Could we have a "reply" button?
 

Currently when we access our private messages, there are two buttons: FORWARD and QUOTE. Could the QUOTE button be changed to say REPLY? The first time I accessed a Private Message, I couldn't figure out how to respond. It was a day before I tried QUOTE - and voila, there was a reply screen.

I second this as I also had the same initial confusion.

That threw us at first too. That might change as part of the graphic redesign, but would it throw you if the default behavior of a reply button was to quote the original message?

I for one do not have a problem with the original quote being included. Why not just rename it "Reply with Quote" so that there is no misunderstanding?

I too was confused with the lack of a "reply" button initially.

No, that would work fine. I can always delete the quoted original message if I did not wish to include it in my reply.

FewMiles..

The reply with quote would be great ^

Makes communication much easier

Any update?
 

Hi John,
Any update on changing this yet?

The quote button does this. It defaults to reply to sender and quotes their message.

If you dont want to quote the message then just delete it.

It is not intuititively obvious that QUOTE means REPLY. Thus we have requested our helpful hardworking FT IT folks to rename the tab. I would still like this change, as I think it is very confusing the first time that private messaging is used to figure out how to respond.

Agree it would be better labelled as "REPLY".

It's on our list of things to do (make a "Reply w/ Quote" button)... hang tight.

I agree with SanDiego1K on this point....it took me a few days to figure out how to reply and having the tag changed would be helpful.

But, I do love the new PM feature!!!! ^ ^ ^ ^

Thank you for our "Reply" button
 

Woohoo! It's done!!! It is now very clear how to respond to a private message. Thank you so much.

Yeah, it did... I couldn't find the button for quoting a public post in a reply. All I saw was "Reply" and "Post Reply".

How about "Reply with Quote"?

Perhaps I Should Have Written “In RESPONSE To The Reply?...”
 

I quote the quote above in my post because you posted that dan at WebFlyer is supposed to reply to the reply on how to reply to the Reply issue and re-apply the reply about replies to Reply with Quote.

So, if dan at WebFlyer is supposed to post a reply to the post pertaining to the Reply button, to quote the quote that had already been quoted from another post in at least one reply found in yet another post, would a reply about re-applying the Reply With Quote with a quote in a post that is posted in a timely manner be a proper reply?

...wait a minute...?!?...