There's an idea. Have the buttons be [[@][Quote]] [@Mention]. If you get what I mean, no padding between the [@] and [quote] so they appear to be two parts to a single button, making the [@] a mentionable quote.

It'd be no smaller than the rating buttons, so it's not exactly hard to hit. It preserves space. And being directly adjacent to the quote button, it makes it clear what it does.

EDIT: Mockup, because I could:

Those buttons are rather close. For people who don't use a computer mouse (eg. all mobile users), clicking one button rather than the other would be tricky.

In regards to the discussion on notifications, perhaps a good middle-ground is to sort (and maybe even group into hiders, at least if there are more than 1 or 2) notifications by thread. Thus you do not increase clutter, but the notifications are still grouped into where they come from so you don't have a mixed list.

I also prefer full quotes rather than expanding quotes. Expanding quotes require extra elements on the page, thus more to go wrong, and the first few lines only provide the proper context if the first few lines of the post are the context and not a later part of the post.

@Captain Jordan
Except some mobile users prefer desktop site versions, and zooming every time you wish to quote someone would be annoying. The rating buttons are already too small to push without zooming on mobile.

@Captain Jordan@Ellri
No, what I'm saying is that we really don't need more buttons at the bottom of posts, and especially small ones at that. I don't see the need to have a quote button and a quote with mention beside it.

Except some mobile users prefer desktop site versions, and zooming every time you wish to quote someone would be annoying. The rating buttons are already too small to push without zooming on mobile.

(If anything, editing out a single character requires much more accuracy than hitting a button of that approximate size.)

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Denied.

But-but... We were this close to beating @Captain Jordan's record... [insert obligatory whining]

This thread is far too quiet.