re: re:

[dr_tectonic]

Okay, having just been thoroughly confused detangling what was in response to what over yonder on another site, here's the new rule. Pay attention, everybody who might ever develop social software of whatever type:

If you allow comments? Thread them.

Period.

I don't care if it's more work. I don't care if it doesn't play nicely with your infrastructure. When people are saying things, they're usually saying them in response to something else that has been said, and making it easy to see how these things line up with one another is essential to the actual "communication" part of that whole saying stuff thing you're enabling. Otherwise it's all just half a cell-phone conversation in public, which is both useless and annoying.

Comments are threaded. ALWAYS.

I have decreed it! Now make it so!

Comments

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I miss how *hot* you are when you're bossy. Go put those boots on, mister...

[kev-bot.livejournal.com]

RAWR

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

You have no idea.

[kev-bot.livejournal.com]

OMG you guys turn me on like almost no one else.

* The almost is because of Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Hm. He doesn't do much for me, so he's all yours. If you'll excuse me, I have to return to my happy image of one booted Beemer, one bound Greg, and one rather excitable me.

[detailbear.livejournal.com]

Ok. Now I can't stand up for a while.

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're at home, you can stand up, shake/swing it about, or whatever else gets you going.

Unless you happen to be at work, in which case, yeah, stay seated. Certainly don't think of this pile of sweaty, moaning fur. Nope. Anything but that. How about boots, smooth rope, or a gag? Oh, wait...