Comment on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:33:08 GMT

Should we standardize on one possibility, or decide on a case-by-case basis?

As a more serious response, I personally try to make one response, unless the commenter is still actively part of the discussion and the discussion has clearly split into two topics. In practice, that tends to weigh very strongly against splitting.

One major disadvantage of splitting an active conversation is that interesting points may go into only one branch, and end up missed in the other branch. Especially if one's main method of browsing is clicking the recent comments.

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