Why do people quote cast someone instead of replying to their cast, especially when the original cast was made like 10 minutes ago? 

Apart from trying to get a boost on the WC reward leaderboard, what are other legitimate reasons for doing this? I’m genuinely curious

quote cast =
✅ guarantee you will show up in following feed
✅ potential to show up in home feed
✅ reward points

reply =
❌ you will not show up in the following feed
❌ lower potential to show up in home feed
❌ no reward points

incentivizing things @ poidh.xyz - come chill /poidh + follow @poidhbot

There is always the risk that the person you are quoting may think you are being a malicious farmer and decide to unfollow you. Important to keep this in mind

In that case I would just cast without a quote

yeah people can be scared of the social implications of it

but end of the day potential social status issues are an abstract future problem, no one seeing your posts is a direct issue that everyone hates