On 18 March 2015 at 21:42, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Brad: unfortunately, it's really hard to tell very
much from a conversation
with messages like "3: Post C: reply to Post A". You could do that with the
old model, the new model or the perfect magic Nobel-Prize-winning
discussion threading still to be discovered, and it would probably look
like nonsense in all three.
We've tried in our testing to pretend that we're having real conversations,
so we could see whether there's any logical way to get to eight levels of
nested threading. It's not easy to organize make-believe conversations, but
if you want to start a thread, I'd be happy to fire up a few sockpuppets
and pretend to talk about something with you.
The problem with your testing process is that it is entirely possible for
a response to one comment to also make sense as a response to other
comments - which leads to miscommunication, confusion and difficulty
figuring out who is saying what to whom.
Risker/Anne