Hide the "Reply to Thread" button when viewing a thread?

[RedTurtle]

Some of our users keep getting confused by the "Reply to Thread" button when they are viewing a thread and using the Quick Reply editor.

After filling in their response, they accidentally push "reply to thread" instead of the "post quick reply" button.

When they push the "reply to thread" button it reloads the thread page and their post has disappeared. Sometimes the auto-save catches it, but then there's the problem of them knowing about that knowing how to restore the last saved content.

Instead, I think it would be a better UI improvement to just hide the "Reply to Thread" button when viewing a thread. Not sure what the purpose of it is when Quick Reply editor is enabled....maybe without it Multi-quote doesn't work?

So is there a way to hide the reply to thread button when viewing a thread?

Thanks.