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It usually gets contained to a branch however. You can choose not to engage with that branch and instead start your own.
by bena 3y ago
It usually gets contained to a branch however.
You can choose not to engage with that branch and instead start your own.
- Ralfp 3y agoBut 95%% of attention will go to the "top" branches which are usually memes and "dumbass marathons" were people are trying to keep the original joke going.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoCompared to how most of the attention in a traditional forum will go to people trying to respond to the TC/OP? Even in cases where 4-5 pages in the TC already resolved the issue? The only benefit for a forum is that it "bumps" a topic when you participate in it, so you can keep a topic alive. But that isn't too difficult for a threaded style forum to replicate. That just wasn't how Reddit wanted topics to work (nor HN, in our case). Reddit never even implemented a way to subscribe to a topic despite a 3rd party extension having a feature for over a decade.
- George83728 3y agoWhen you have to collapse a dozen worthless discussion trees to find one that is actually discussing the topic instead of spamming lame reddit narwhal memes, I think it's fair to call the discussion derailed.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoPoint is, linear boards like phpBB can't even support threads this large - without the tree, a thread goes to shit the moment someone posts a lame meme.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoCompared to scrolling through a dozen pages of users arguing over the same first comment topic? Maybe it's better to say "it's easier to mute de-railings" then say it is prevented. one or two clicks compared to a dozen page loads and scrollings.