This isn’t an end-to-end example, but sometimes there’s a discussion in the comments of someone’s post, and a very related comment on a short form. I can make a new comment that links to the old comment, but sometimes what I actually want is to drop the old comment (along with all of it’s associated children) into the new discussion.
Like, the comment should exist in two places on LessWrong, and any comments are visible in both places.
Then there’s one unified conversation, on that narrow point, instead of two related conversations.
I’m not strongly claiming that this is overall a good idea.
This isn’t an end-to-end example, but sometimes there’s a discussion in the comments of someone’s post, and a very related comment on a short form. I can make a new comment that links to the old comment, but sometimes what I actually want is to drop the old comment (along with all of it’s associated children) into the new discussion.
Like, the comment should exist in two places on LessWrong, and any comments are visible in both places.
Then there’s one unified conversation, on that narrow point, instead of two related conversations.
I’m not strongly claiming that this is overall a good idea.