12-04-2005, 07:51 PM
Participants in this and other forums are often in the situation where an interesting point is made within a thread about something that is related, but different enough to technically justify a new thread. This raises the decision of starting a new one, with the risk that it is of limited enough interest that it will quickly die off, versus staying within the existing thread, where it may survive longer on the coattails of the main thread, but annoy people who want to keep the focus on the topic that originally started the thread?
It would be nice if there were a feature called something like "reply==>start subtopic", where the reply would fall into a new thread, but the new thread would remain under the existing thread's hierarchy, like a subroutine. Seems that something like this would go a long way toward solving the dilemma. Any possibility of something like this being added to the existing reply options? Thanks.
It would be nice if there were a feature called something like "reply==>start subtopic", where the reply would fall into a new thread, but the new thread would remain under the existing thread's hierarchy, like a subroutine. Seems that something like this would go a long way toward solving the dilemma. Any possibility of something like this being added to the existing reply options? Thanks.
