@goodenuff
LMFAO, it was YOU who said this "Other times- yer on yer own. Which often leads to some amusing (or confusing) conversations. But I'm easily amused. Others around here, not so much. "
Then say to me that if you aren't smart enough to figure it out..... Classic.
Ah yes, subtle put down there. /s
If someone's made 5 comments and you simply @ them there can/will be confusion. Others have said the same in this thread. You are being willfully blind if you claim you haven't seen that here.
<p>"<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px">also, not sure what you mean by reddit not showing subthreads, both mobile and web show all comments unless they've been downvoted to oblivion or you've minimized them."</span></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:tahoma,verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px">I don't have an account on Reddit. I'm reading as a non-member. Maybe that's a perk.</span></p>
"if a participant can't figure out which post by a named participant a responding participant is referring to..."
Okay, so it's not just me. I wondered, since 'in media res' - a literary device that starts a tale in the middle and leaves the reader to figure it out - is my favorite, so even if someone is replying to a years old post, it works for me.
@ImA- if a participant can't figure out which post by a named participant a responding participant is referring to, they aren't smart enough to understand the discussion anyway.
also, not sure what you mean by reddit not showing subthreads, both mobile and web show all comments unless they've been downvoted to oblivion or you've minimized them.
Also referencing a profile name doesn't work well when they have multiple comments. For example if I said GoodEnuFF at the start of this comment, which of their two comments am I replying to?
Wayne,
I'm the exact opposite. I hate the everything is inline. As it is now, you need to scroll up, sometimes pages, to find out who someone is actually replying to and what they said. It's one of the reasons I don't use the forums much.
This is literally the only app/forum that I use that is like this. The others are all subthreaded to make it easier to follow a conversation. Even all modern email systems are subthreaded so you can follow replies and not have to try to figure out what a reply is replying to.
And as another said, try blocking some people and then following a thread with completely missing responses where you have no idea where in the conversation it was or what it may have been replying to.
" I would support adding a "Reply with quote" option. "
Ditto. Vbulletin style.
Oh, and be careful if shortening the profile name when referencing them. Someone once referred to a SM Forum participant as "Bridget".
That was amusing to several participants.
"We don't have trouble following conversations the way things are."
You're obviously not making liberal use of the "block" feature. Try being more liberal... :-)
"Myself and others will sometimes reference the profile name we are responding to..."
Yeah. Sometimes I do that and sometimes I C&P the part of the post I'm replying to. Other times- yer on yer own. Which often leads to some amusing (or confusing) conversations. But I'm easily amused. Others around here, not so much.
<p><a href="https://www.swinglifestyle.com/profile/lookup.cfm?usercode=57154282">ImAWanderingSoul</a>,</p>
<p>Thank you for describing what you were talking about. I personally do not like forums that are setup that way. Especially Reddit, which I pretty much hate. It has subthreads, but it does not show you them by default. You have to click on a link to view them and I find that very confusing. And I don't like all the indention.</p>
<p>Myself and others will sometimes reference the profile name we are responding to, like I did for this post. Or copy and past the other member's post and put it in quotes. I would support adding a "Reply with quote" option. </p>
We don't have trouble following conversations the way things are.
EDIT: Each reply should align under the REPLY it's replying to (not the post)
All of this is within on post. The replies should be threaded so you can see who is replying to what. Right now they all just come in by time so it's very hard to follow a conversation and often people appear to be replying to a comment that is 5,6,7 comments above the last one.
An example would be how Reddit shows comments.
hope that makes sense
I mean each reply should align under the post it's replied to.
So what you consider a thread would have subthreads showing who is replying to what.
1.
...2
...........2b
...........2c
.....3
.....4
.....5
............5b
............5c
...................5c1
......6
like that.
Bam ... Mike Drop!
<p>The forums are threaded. This is a thread. Can you explain exactly what you mean? </p>
This shouldn't be a hard thing to do. I wrote my own threaded forums in 1995 using PHP, that was almost 30 YEARS AGO NOW (fuck I'm old).
I know this has been asked before and I'm asking again.
Wayne, WHY hasn't this been made a priority?
