On 18 March 2015 at 21:42, Danny Horn <dh...@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.
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