>Then again, I'm biased.

That's an understatement.

But seriously, I agree with everything you stand for in regards to how internet discussion should work. Flat discussion is vastly superior, even when weighing the negatives

The only time i've ever seen threading really work well is when it only includes the headers, like with email or newsreader clients, and there's a separate frame altogether for the text (which makes it in essence follow a flat style.)

But threading the text as well just makes long discussions difficult to follow and unreadable as the margin starts to get cramped.

Which on HN is apparently part of the reason they do it the way they do.

We like quasiquotes and backticks around here.

Well, they're not mutually exclusive, reddit has both a flat 'new' and 'top' comments -- new is 4chan-like and top is hn-like with an interesting strategy with fancy nonlinear time-decaying importance.

But this is of course one of those cases where they decided to make a choice, and they clearly favor the "top" structure.

Honestly I think they could have meshed the two better, though.

s/they/you/

(check the user)

nm I'm dumb, you were meaning reddit as "they" it looks like.

Can I ask if you have any views about voting and hierarchy display of comments? What sort of commentary culture that produces?

mfw.