I think I figured out the issue, and it seems to be a Discourse bug.
If you do a quote and don’t make and changes (type some text, hit enter, etc.) then when you minimize the reply window it goes away. It probably thinks you wanted to cancel because you didn’t type anything. However, it has also saved a Draft. Then when you grab your next section to quote you get the Reload message because there’s a Draft message already that it seems to have forgot about.
Workaround:
- select text, hit quote
- hit enter (or type a bit)
- now you can freely minimize the reply box and grab more quotes and no need to type anything (since it now knows you’re serious about replying)
Bug exists on both Desktop and Mobile versions of the site.