It "associates" it in that the quote is in the message. But there is no actual link to your message in this message. That way people can reply to multiple messages in one reply, but it's not threaded replies.
What about the "Undo" button? Does that get it back to blank for you? I was able to...
I'm not being sarcastic, I'm trying to understand what you mean by "associated reply" because posts are made to the thread in chronological order, the first post up top and the newest post at the bottom. Replying to a post "in the middle" so to speak will quote that post in your reply, but your...
Why not just delete the quoted text?
The reply box is always at the bottom of all the post pages so you could add to the post. When you click the "Reply" next to the "Like" it's just quoting the message you click reply on and bringing you to the bottom of the page. If you don't want it...