Include a "Reply without quote" option
 

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I check to see what templates have been customized or maybe what posting setting have been set, because you should see a reply button between edit post and reply with quote.

By default a "Reply" link should appear on every post next to Edit, which means that somewhere in your style something was changed.

see:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/04/41.png

without a link to the forum in question, there really is no way to tell what's going on..

EDIT: Check your Quick Reply settings, if you turn Quick Reply off, the reply link will disappear (at least it did for me on my dev vBulletin)

This = No Reply link at bottom of post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/04/42.png

This = Reply link at bottom of post:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/04/43.png

the third option should be the same as the second image.

Sorry I don't know. I personally leave it up to members to decide if they want the advanced editor or not when replying/quoting.

I imagine there's a plugin or mod or something out there you could use to force everyone to the 'advanced' version, though I don't know of any offhand.

There already is in option.

There are two ways to reply to a thread without quoting:

• Click the Reply link located on the footer of each post
• Click the Reply to Thread button

Then enable Quick Reply.

However, even with it disabled, you can still use Reply to Thread.

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