> Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. Then you can st

> Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. Then you can start a new thread, or reply to a more directly related comment. > This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment. I know, and in the wrong context that can be pretty annoying as well.