"-how shitty it is to copy-paste stuff for me and others."
Everything I paste tends to need to be re-formatted (even copy/pasting lines from the content box itself just to move it somewhere). When I paste from a notepad file or a website it's annoying to keep having to fix it up.
The weird X that appears at the end of posts sometimes after messing with it in certain ways confuses me as well. What's the story behind that?
"And it seems Turncoat has given up quoting altogether, he just pastes the lines he wants between ""."
I also italicize it. I'm honestly just lazy, or I'll use the quote function to make the quote more show-y, such as using it to reference a website.
If I deal with more than one quote, I'll sometimes organize it in Notepad since my browser is prone to crashing at random times. It's easier to go through the extra steps to format it into something nice than to press enough people's Quote Me buttons to fill in my posting needs.
Quoting and copy paste should be the next thing worked on. It's an irritating number of extra steps to use both of them in a way that doesn't have problems. The button itself is pretty much a waste, and the "Quote Me" button only allows one quote per post.