Indeed this would be difficult to implement, and furthermore I’m not convinced it’s the best choice from a UI perspective.
It would be a bit of work even to find out when a comment linked to another comment, and notify it.
This sort of thing is why Tim Berners-Lee wanted hyperlinks to be two-directional in the first place, but there are a lot of good reasons why they’re not.
This would not be that hard to implement. Each comment could have a list of linking comments. Then whenever a comment links to another, which is not hard to detect as links are already detected to support the comment markups, the list of the linked comment can be updated.
Indeed this would be difficult to implement, and furthermore I’m not convinced it’s the best choice from a UI perspective.
It would be a bit of work even to find out when a comment linked to another comment, and notify it.
This sort of thing is why Tim Berners-Lee wanted hyperlinks to be two-directional in the first place, but there are a lot of good reasons why they’re not.
This would not be that hard to implement. Each comment could have a list of linking comments. Then whenever a comment links to another, which is not hard to detect as links are already detected to support the comment markups, the list of the linked comment can be updated.