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@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 19:04:19 +0200, Brandon Harris bharris@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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