On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:52:44 +0200, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In this case, which post are you replying to in flow
when you reply to
multiple people? In mediawiki you sort of work around the issue, and it
sort of works because you try to create some ad-hoc solution. When the
software creates a hard dependency between posts, where it is difficult now
to keep track of these kinds of discussion, it may become even more
difficult to follow them then. Since we've established that this is
something that currently does happen, I think even if it is (to be polite
(?)) completely insane, it's something that should be supported anyway.
When I encounter this issue on mailing lists, I usually just reply to the lowest common
ancestor of all the posts I want to reply to at once, or split my reply and respond to
each separately.
(And mailing lists are interesting by itself, because most actual e-mail clients display
the discussion in a threaded fashion, while most webmails like GMail display a flat list
of replies.)
Introducing a structured discussion is hard enough, let's not invent issues where
there are none. :)
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Matma Rex