This is getting to be a thing and a very irritating one at that.
It never used to be, because people obviously used to assume that when you reply, you're replying to OP's key opening post, unless you quote a specific other post/comment.
I'm getting quite sick of scrrrrrooooolllling past endless repeats of the (especially if long) OP quoted again and again for the sake of someone posting a minimal 'Sounds awful OP' type comment.
MN could you take away the Quote function for the opening post?
Why is it needed - it's the question everyone is supposed to be replying to anyway. Yes for subsequent posts where a poster might want to address a specific or a fellow other poster. Not at all necessary for the OP, you're on this thread, we can be fairly sure that a general comment is in response to the OP, we don't need the OP re-posted 25 times down the thread.
Please!