I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

For some reason I read the title As " [b] This is why the current structure for [i]reptiles[/i] doesn't work[/b]... I'm disappointed at the lack of botany and reptilian taxonomy in this thread.

Big Black Bear is complaining/giving feedback!!!! What?!! Is there something wrong with you?!!! Are you High on Crack or something?!!!!!!

I'll give you a real world example of this, [url=http://www.bungie.net/en-US/View/community/Forum/Post?id=59777625]check out this thread.[/url] Someone was all on about a new ARG that was with Bungie's next project, trying to develop an idea off of someone's tweets. However, Urk stepped in to confirm that it was false. Urk's reply was in a nested conversation and now it's buried somewhere. I just checked on it and DeeJ had to step in and re-quote Urk out loud to make sure that it was clear that thread is false, for those that didn't care to open each nested reply. Now, the question is,[i] if DeeJ hadn't done this[/i], would the thread still develop as normal without finding Urk's buried post? We'll never know. I like the conversation view we have right now, however, I feel that Official responses should stand out, even if they're in a collapsed reply. Once we get more activity, one "gold text" response might not even be seen, unless others are constantly bringing it up in conversation. I feel there should be more attention to Employee responses.

I just want comments to be listed in chronological order from oldest to newest. Why would I want to see the most recent parts of a discussion first?

Honestly, this new format was confusing to me as well, but only because I'm not used to it. Structuring the main on-topic responses to be immediately visible makes more sense if you think about it. I think we're all just a little self-obsessed when we obsess over seeing what someone responded to our thread.

In your scenario, the employee is using the system improperly. If employee or anyone else for that fact replies to your comment, it is directed towards you, the OC. If your comment helps out the OP, and an employee confirms this, then they should comment on the OP and somehow reference that you had it right, not make fact of this in a reply to your comment. 1. Comments are directed at the OP. 2. Replies are directed at the Original Commenter (OC). 3. The system b.net has now works great, and isn't broken, so shouldn't be fixed.

Here are the issues I and others have with replies: 1. Nobody knows who replied to a comment (except the OP and the person who was replied to) until they expand it 2. Sometimes comments don't go to the top if they're replied to 3. A thread could have 100 posts but only 5 actual comments, meaning you'll have to expand all 5 posts individually to read bits and pieces of the conversation. This means threads take longer to read. 4. Replies are all out of order because you can reply to each individual reply within replies. I'm positive most of this is by design, and I do understand where Bungie was going with them. I like being able to take certain comments to the next level and have micro conversations, but I think it becomes a huge problem when all discussion is under certain comments and scattered all over the place. It interrupts the flow of conversation and makes it both inconvenient and confusing to read. I'd venture to say that it's one of the biggest turn offs of the forums at the moment. Why do we even still have the quote feature if it's been rendered next to useless because of this now? I think the web team should invest in an overhaul of the quote feature so people are encouraged to converse more openly. A thread is like a classroom. Instead of people taking turns participating and answering questions the teacher asks aloud, the reply system splits the students into little groups to have their own discussions. Again, it's not necessarily a bad thing in theory, but I don't feel like it's working out. Conversation is segmented to the point where it seems easy to be left out.

I see when a thread is replied to. If it's a question I asked, I don't decide not to check it anymore. Especially if I'm OP. You can see when post count increases (Like Tom said above) and you go to check what was posted. Not that hard. It's like, if I post a question on here, I'm not going to ignore after posting it because I don't feel like finding out the answer any more lol.