What is up with the "comment" ability, why not just leave a normal reply?

[Merlin]

I don't get it. Making a new full comment bumps a thread, but comments don't. Yet you can still quote people, so why not just do that? It also breaks apart the timeline or series of comments in a way that is going to prove hard to follow. Like a few people leave replies to a post within the post, almost psuedo-reddit style. While another person will post a full comment quoting the person, and then maybe people will again leave reply comments on that.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have it one way or the other? It is already confusing the hell out of me and makes it hard to follow a conversation.

[Animusisters]

It just makes it easier to derailt and split things.

[L3F20XX]

I think it's useful too, I hate scrolling for ages on threads where people start flinging shit at each other for stupid reasons. Since this comments take less space they are much easier to ignore if I have no interest in them.

[James27]

I think it's useful, since it allows you to reply to a specific post without derailing the entire thread.

[JackofTears]

I really like the commenting feature, it allows you to directly respond to a poster without having to quote them in a long thread where they might not even see your response. It also allows for personal responses to something an author said without involving the entire thread in the discussion. In this way people can discuss specific details in greater depth and create sub-discussions between people with a shared interest in a sub-topic or deviation from the main thread.

All in all, I have to say that I've been very impressed with the quality of the forum here, with all the options it offers you.

[Valkenr]

One of the really annoying things about forums, is how people start talking past eachother, and you get 4-5 paralell quote threads running in the same thread. This is the one thing I like about Reddit. Each discussion branches off another. The comments here at least give one branch to keep the discussion better organized. Its only confusing to follow if you try and follow everything. Better ideas in comment threads will re-surface as new posts. If you want to address a specific post, make a comment. If you want to continue the discussion and add to a post, quote it.

[Tom]

I was wondering wth is goin on xD

[aileron]

......comment thing before in a forum, but, really, it took quite a lot of effort to abuse it as I did above. I find it weird, but I don't find it a disaster, and I'm ok if they leave it enabled a little bit longer.

These default error messages like "postfloodcheck" and "please_enter_message_x_chars" are driving me absolutely f ing crazy though ;p

[Chairman Meow]

Instead you'll have a thread full of 300 seperate conversations.

This is exactly what I meant by disrupting the flow only stated better.

[fenrif]

I think it's cool. It lets people just have a contained, somewhat casual conversation specific to that post. I think it probably has a positive byproduct of threads not being monopolized by one specific convo and ending up with 300 pages of posturing and trying to win in front of everyone with multi-quote, sentence-by-sentence take downs.

Instead you'll have a thread full of 300 seperate conversations.

[Chairman Meow]

It's terrible and disrupts the flow. Exactly the opposite of how discussion forums are supposed to be.

[Dub-Z]

I think it's cool. It lets people just have a contained, somewhat casual conversation specific to that post. I think it probably has a positive byproduct of threads not being monopolized by one specific convo and ending up with 300 pages of posturing and trying to win in front of everyone with multi-quote, sentence-by-sentence take downs.

[system11]

Already seen a thread where it devolved into multiple discussions in separate comment threads - personally I'd turn it off.

[Animusisters]

Just disable the comments and you have the easiest solution.

[Tom]

Yeah, i remember this one too,
Almost felt like reading the same thing twise.
Kudos to you for finding it!

(also a good demo of what comments are suitable for)
aileron