transmogrified link/reply question

[kaigou]

I've noticed that as long as a post has no replies, the "link" option is visible. As soon as someone replies, the "link"/"reply" options disappear, and are replaced with "reply"/"# replies" instead. That makes me go through three additional steps if I want to be able to link to a post, then, because I don't always want to link to the replies or even to the reply option -- I just want to link to the post.

Does anyone know if this is something that'll be fixed in the next code/style push, or if it's a setting I can adjust on my own?