User blog comment:Toughpigs/Wikia's new Forum demo/@comment-3279487-20120803112622/@comment-3508190-20120803223959

Currently the forums have one post and everything else is classified as a reply. But forum threads (actually message well threads as well) are far less linear.

Sometimes somebody with a similar issue chimes in and the discussion turns in that direction. In some cases a mod might want to split the discussion into a separate forum thread when that happens. But in a lot of cases the problem is similar enough to be discussed on the same page.

Sometimes the discussion wanders off on tangents. It doesn't necessarily become off-topic in the process, but it's no longer in reply to the original post either.

A simple 1-post-X-replies scheme doesn't cut it. More than one level of reply-depth would be useful. The option to split a thread in two would be useful. The option to "promote" replies to posts would be useful (without splitting them off into different threads). And since this is Wikia, it would be very very useful if all of that could be done without involving a mod.