several questions -quick reply option and more

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I am not seeing Quick Reply on my forum at all . . . is there a switch I need to flip?
I did a search, of course, but only see threads about people's issues w/ their Quick Reply . . . I don't even have Quick Reply! LOL!

Also, there's a few things I CANNOT find in stylevars and it's making me batty, I'm having some issues w/ white text on white backgrounds and I have spent hours in stylevars changing one variable at a time and refreshing, then reverting and trying the next . . . nothing
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I tried:

Go into stylevars > and change "textedit_background"

&

.postbit-lite .posttext {
color:#coloruwant;
}

and neither worked
to be clear, it's NOT the active text box in profile messages, it the appearance in ALREADY SENT messages.


Finally, I set the Mod Room as private. . . but anyone can still see it, they just can't post.
Here's where I thought the setting was {?}
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THANK YOU in advance!