I think displaying this in a non-misleading fashion would be pretty easy—just display the divs for any intermediate elided comments, but with no content in them. Then the nesting will be visible. You could display their content as ‘...’ or ‘show comment’ or whatever if you wanted, but I think the minimal solution without that would totally solve the problem where I claim the current display is super misleading about the context of comments.
(The most severe example of the thing I’m pointing to would be something like:
> A: I hate puppies, kick them all!
> B: You are a terrible person!
> C: I agree completely.
being rendered as:
> A: I hate puppies, kick them all!
> C: I agree completely.
with no direct indication that anything is missing. The example that prompted me to complain was not at this level of severity but the out-of-context reply was jarring and confusing.)
I think displaying this in a non-misleading fashion would be pretty easy—just display the divs for any intermediate elided comments, but with no content in them. Then the nesting will be visible. You could display their content as ‘...’ or ‘show comment’ or whatever if you wanted, but I think the minimal solution without that would totally solve the problem where I claim the current display is super misleading about the context of comments.
(The most severe example of the thing I’m pointing to would be something like:
being rendered as:
with no direct indication that anything is missing. The example that prompted me to complain was not at this level of severity but the out-of-context reply was jarring and confusing.)