...unless you use "Quote" option.
Yep. This is a new issue for me; I have been trying to reply to other members' posts without resorting to quoting their posts, but every time I've done so, when I hit preview to see if my post is ready to be saved on the forum, the text I typed vanishes and I get an error message saying the body text space was blank and therefore I can't post.
What gives?