now that I think about it, it would not help him much, it might get rid of a line, at most two.


A better idea is to keep the format as is but squeeze things a bit.

|NAME AREA-------------|-STATS-|-EDIT/REPLY|
|-------------------POST-------------------|
|-------------------POST-------------------|
|SIGNATURE---------------------|REPLY/QUOTE|

it is relatively obvious that quote =quote and reply, so why not shorten it to

[Reply | Quote] and just use one column for it, that should more then half the # of lines for him