Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (72)

We seem to be mixing 2 issues: off-topic comments, and mid-thread comments.

Off-topic comments (jokes/banter/tangentialquestions/etc) can be ignored (as we ideally do now), or if they're a legitimate separate topic then they can (more easily with Flow (hypothetically)) be split off into a new thread.

[I do agree that the decision of "when to split" will be a new-ish process for us to deal with (assuming that Flow makes it easier somehow), but it's the kind of thing we're pretty good at coming up with community-norms and guidelines for, if given a little time and hands-on experience. If we want to discuss the hypotheticals of how that could work, now/here, a new thread for it would be good!]

Mid-thread comments are actually a thing that we might not want to miss, but are very easy to miss with the current discussion system. There are numerous times, that I've made a reply to a busy thread, in the semantically correct location (eg. halfway down, 5:indents in), but barely anybody saw it, because we're all too often in the habit of only looking at the bottom few posts. LQT is possibly an example of a fix for this, and this discussion is an example in particular. I assume Flow will be similarly useful in this regard.