The main reason why I would prefer a quote for on-forum usage, is standardization: it makes it easier to quickly see it's a quote than looking for a "quelle".
I agree, the quote function makes it 'cleaner'. I didn't use it that much until now because it makes everything harder to read as things get smaller and in many cases, it breaks the reading flow. But this
incident here made me a bit more aware that people are actually concerned about plagiarism and that this seems to be important to them.
In the coming days, I'll successively go through my past posts and
check them carefully 
[...] I don't think this difference of interpretation should make you guys mortal enemies.
No worries, I harbor no ill feelings. As this is my hobby I have absolutely no intentions of having
mortal enemies, my free time is much too valuable for that
