In such cases, you may want to
still quote the bulk of the thread just in case for background context
but you want to save the reader the PITA of scrolling through it all
just to read your short, obvious, and context-independent response. Of
course, the pedantic and obsessive-compulsive may still not concede that
case...

exactly, they'll just tell you you're wrong and that they're man enough to
admit it.

I put this at the bottom so the pedantic and OC would see it.....