http://www.glorum.com/message/31 2009-01-06T00:48:47+01:00 text/html 2006-10-06T16:11:51+01:00 http://www.glorum.com blitz http://www.glorum.com/view/31 I was thinking that replies should come with tags too. Many times a thread can start as a topic and morph into other topics. text/html 2006-10-10T12:18:11+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/31 Hi blitz. It makes sense and I was thinking the very same thing. However I would like to have some more activity before introducing radical changes. text/html 2006-10-25T09:15:23+01:00 http://www.glorum.com elroyjetson http://www.glorum.com/view/31 I was just thinking about this today. If a thread morphs into another topic, wouldnt it be of more value to spawn it off as a new thread. I suspect that tagging comments would just add clutter to the posts. Maybe a better solution would be to enable comment threading, i.e. I can comment on your comments and then allow people to vote on spawning off the comment thread as a new thread. That would then allow tagging, generate a new thread, and still link it in context with the original thread t text/html 2006-10-26T12:52:13+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/31 elroyjetson, that's interesting. I like the idea of having replies-as-threads and only certain types of replies (post-like replies), not all. However, I am trying to visualize it and I see a couple of issues that would need to be addressed: A - what would be the title of the new thread (I think a title "Re:<parent_thread_title>" is not ok) B - if I directly read the new thread independently from the parent thread, how do I understand the context? the reply could contain something like "y text/html 2006-10-27T03:37:02+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/31 Replies as Threads (http://www.glorum.com/message/54/ ) --------------------------------------------------------- @elroyjetson is suggesting that some replies could become independent threads and have their own tags and replies, while still being seen as replies in the context of their parent thread. (http://www.glorum.com/message/31/#98 ) I think the idea is interesting in many ways. Blogoforum (http://www.blogoforum.com ) does something of this type. Basically *all* replies are a new