As you know, there are problems with either not being able to quote in replies at all, or having to open the reply box, then scroll back to the text you want to quote and highlight, then scroll back to the reply box and click on the quote icon, which can be a bit of a hassle. I thought I would ask on the Social Strata help forum pages what was being done and I have had a reply from Brian Lenz, one of their software engineers.
This is a copy of his reply:
I can't give any promises as far as a date of the next release, but I would anticipate it to be some time in the next month or two.
There won't be any highlighting of text in the new model. Instead, you'll essentially be clicking a flag/checkbox of some sort next to each post to indicate that you want to quote it. You will be able to select multiple messages, and then when you click reply, it will include all of the text from all of those messages.
We will likely also give some kind of "quick quote reply" next to each reply for the scenario where you just want to quote a single reply.
In any event, the feature has not yet been implemented, so this is just a high level overview of how we're anticipating things will work. It is by no means a promise to implement the feature as described here since we may need to alter the design a bit during implementation as we discover issues, etc.
Hopefully that gives you a clear idea of where we're going with the feature.
Brian
I also asked him if there would in the meantime a quick fix for those using IE and other browsers who can't quote at all, before this next release. Unfortunately they won't be doing this. So I will repeat my own tip which I have previously posted.
My temporary quick fix is to highlight the text to quote, press Ctrl-C, go to the reply box, type something like "Quote from " user name, then press Ctrl-V. Obviously this appears as ordinary reply text, but it's better than nothing.
I've also posted this in Feedback.
Can people bump this thread if they see it drifting off the page as I don't want yet another sticky
This is a copy of his reply:
I can't give any promises as far as a date of the next release, but I would anticipate it to be some time in the next month or two.
There won't be any highlighting of text in the new model. Instead, you'll essentially be clicking a flag/checkbox of some sort next to each post to indicate that you want to quote it. You will be able to select multiple messages, and then when you click reply, it will include all of the text from all of those messages.
We will likely also give some kind of "quick quote reply" next to each reply for the scenario where you just want to quote a single reply.
In any event, the feature has not yet been implemented, so this is just a high level overview of how we're anticipating things will work. It is by no means a promise to implement the feature as described here since we may need to alter the design a bit during implementation as we discover issues, etc.
Hopefully that gives you a clear idea of where we're going with the feature.
Brian
I also asked him if there would in the meantime a quick fix for those using IE and other browsers who can't quote at all, before this next release. Unfortunately they won't be doing this. So I will repeat my own tip which I have previously posted.
My temporary quick fix is to highlight the text to quote, press Ctrl-C, go to the reply box, type something like "Quote from " user name, then press Ctrl-V. Obviously this appears as ordinary reply text, but it's better than nothing.
I've also posted this in Feedback.
Can people bump this thread if they see it drifting off the page as I don't want yet another sticky
Isn't it for the mods to decide if a thread is stickied or not rather than us ordinary forum members?
El Loro.
Karma! 
I'll wait for the update, but as Brisket says, it doesn't seem like there'll be an option to quote part of a post? 
here we go...the birdman of GaGa FFS...ya just can't behave like an ordinary forummer can ya? Always "updating" us even if we don't bleedin' care! 
