Massive quote trees (or, if you're considerate, a truncated quote tree) are pretty much the norm for old school forums. Sites like 4chan use links. Say what you

Massive quote trees (or, if you're considerate, a truncated quote tree) are pretty much the norm for old school forums. Sites like 4chan use links. Say what you want, but humans haven't really had a problem projecting threaded discussion onto flat forums since forever.