Thread:452/@comment-188432-20121212174307/@comment-452-20121212180142

Thanks. I'm not a wikipedian myself, so I didn't know the history.

Yeah, I was just using that page as an example, rather than saying "this is the wikipedia way!"

A better example - that I've used in my most recent response - is to point out that threaded conversations have worked that way since before wikipedia. The most obvious examples that spring to my mind are yahoo groups and livejournal comments. Not the most shining beacons of websites, but they used that method of displaying threaded discussions, and both predate wikipedia (as does my usage of them).

You're also right that I shouldn't insist on it being the "right" way - I should probably just continue to point out that it's confusing to "indent every post" as it makes it unclear who the comment is meant for.