As one of the mods, my general recommendation agrees with some of the other commenters: For a long running discussion, make a new top-level post. For every level you go down in the comment tree, my gut says you lose something like half of your readers. And we’ve had really good long-running conversations of people riffing off of each other, making posts that either directly or indirectly respond to each other.
For a while I’ve been thinking about explicitly encouraging this by having a “response-post” feature, but I never figured out a good UI for it, and it never quite made the cut.
Yeah I agree with this idea of response posts now as well (I started off not agreeing with it). And that makes sense about it not making the cut as a feature. The current functionality seems to already support it pretty well.
As one of the mods, my general recommendation agrees with some of the other commenters: For a long running discussion, make a new top-level post. For every level you go down in the comment tree, my gut says you lose something like half of your readers. And we’ve had really good long-running conversations of people riffing off of each other, making posts that either directly or indirectly respond to each other.
For a while I’ve been thinking about explicitly encouraging this by having a “response-post” feature, but I never figured out a good UI for it, and it never quite made the cut.
Yeah I agree with this idea of response posts now as well (I started off not agreeing with it). And that makes sense about it not making the cut as a feature. The current functionality seems to already support it pretty well.