Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (61)

We're obviously not picturing the same thing. So here's what we've got now:

You: 1
 * Me: 2
 * You: 3
 * Me: 4
 * You: 5
 * Me: 6

That's a basic threaded, indented discussion with six comments, half from me and half from you. The numbers tell you the order that the comments happened in. If someone revives this discussion years later, they'll add their comment, #7, at the bottom.

Let's say that somebody adds an off-topic comment in the middle. Chronologically, it appeared after your comment #3, and before my reply #4, like this:

You: 1
 * Me: 2
 * You: 3
 * New user: Tangent!
 * Me: That's a bit of a tangent.
 * You: Try posting your idea to this other page.
 * Me: 4
 * You: 5
 * Me: 6

Again, if someone revives this conversation years later, they'll add their comment, #7, at the bottom.

Now, you say that this off-topic tangent eventually dies out in the current system. That's fine. But how is it that this tangent will not die out, just because the same conversation is posted to a Flow thread instead of to a free-form wikitext page? How is this comment not staying right where it was typed, near the top of the old-fashioned discussion, but somehow it climbs higher in prominence, above the original comments, if you type exactly the same conversation, in exactly the same order, into Flow?