That's actually how it would be implemented, and it has at least been written up
somewhere in the voluminous documents.
The reason for continuing to record reply-to ids is so that if you split out a section
into a new topic, it will retain the response tree correctly.
On May 9, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Bartosz DziewoĆski <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 19:04:19 +0200, Brandon Harris
<bharris(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Currently, I'm not restricting depth but I
think we should after 4 levels.
Couldn't we restrict it visually, allowing replies that are technically nested, but
graphically "flat"? They could feature some sort of backwards-arrow icon with
tooltip to inform the reader this happened. This way we'd get the best of both
worlds.
Alternatively, we could indent every reply after, say, fourth one, with a progressively
smaller "tab", so that the left edges would form a curve.
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