Comment 2 for bug 202645

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 22:10 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> In my experience, supporting threading encourages bug discussions to go
> off-topic more than it helps bugs get fixed.

I think that the conversations go off topic irregardless, but at least
this way you can just fold up those threads and ignore them :)

> If we supported this in the Web interface, perhaps we'd need a toggle to
> switch between chronological and threaded order. In some Web forums I've
> noticed people "reply" to the first comment solely so that their comment
> will appear early in the page.

I'm not sure if that is their goal, or the fact that they don't
understand the interface and so they want to reply and click on the
first reply button they see.

Perhaps an interface where the addition of a comment is at the bottom
with a "Reply To:" box where you can select the post. It would be as
efficient, but would give the perception your comment is going at the
end and make it so that most people would have to read through a
significant number of comments before replying.