User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-4407814-20121216105244/@comment-4407814-20121220061205

Nope, I didn't reply to you at all, since comments only let you reply to the start of the thread, not to any reply. I replied to myself. It just happens to end up chronologically posted in the list of replies, which just happens to place it underneath yours. If someone commented after you did, then this would appear after that, and would not look linked to your reply at all.

However, in the new forums, you can reply to a reply, when you "QUOTE". It produces a link to the exact post that you are replying to. Try it, you'll see what I mean. However there is no "REPLY" without quoting. You can reply to the top post, but not to a reply without quoting.