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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com Tue 2008-08-19 13:29
Ah, that's interesting. Thank you for following up (I was going to ask if anything further happened, but expected the conversation would likely fizzle). Maybe we are too cynical, it's strange, but seems fairly nice.

Suddenly I wish LJ had a means of re-merging lots of branches of a threaded discussion in some way...)

Yeah, I'll definitely put that on the list for LJ/news 2.0 :) The feature I had envisaged was to be able to cross-post or flag a comment as if it were a rely to another post/comment, so you can (a) make a comment and say "Hey, X, you might be interested", (b) reply to several comments as one (c) make a post that's also a reply to a previous post, so people who have both on the friends list see one post about a meme, and several more as replies, but anyone with only the second on the friendslist see that as the post, with further as replies. (In some ways merging blogs back into threads, newsgroups and messageboards?)

I think the currently accepted method is to post the full comment once, and then make a shorter comment to other people (or the same comment, then delete it), so all the further replies go to that comment.
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