Filing of Replies; Suggestion

[Thomas Radtke]

(01-05-2014 03:36 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  You can click on the + [Quote this post] just beside the QUOTE button. And then use it in a reply to a specific post using QUOTE or to the original post using NEW REPLY. This allows you to add quotes from multiple posts even from different threads in your reply.

Yes, I know this. Please take a second look:

(01-05-2014 02:43 PM)Thomas Radtke Wrote:  Also, my contribution shows that it would be difficult to list my post in a meaningful way in threaded view. It's atomic in a sense and still references your original post and the first post in the first branch. It is where it is because I needed (or wanted ;-)) Thomas' quote, not because I find it would belong there.

You see where the problem is with the threaded view? A post that would belong to branches A and B (and so on) is shown on one branch only, no matter how I quote it. Of course it does, but this indicates the difficulty of presenting threads within threads, which further indicates something already known since decades of internet fora: Stay on-topic. If we do, the threaded view becomes obsolete.