Because replies are nested and organized, which means you can easily tell who's replying to what.
With Daeron's idea of getting the community involved on the forums, give yourselves the tools to succeed !! I think it's time the forums get a little modernization / facelift. The current forum style is antiquated and inadequate for navigating, tracking and discussing multiple issues. MWO needs to move to cascading / nested style forums.
Further detailing my suggestion along those line to get a better density of information and greatly improve the forums:
- Replies to be presented in a cascading format where it's clear which level users replied to.
- Posts are username and message, that's it. Images and all can still be allowed.
- [User information tombstone with Tier, Image, Location and badges / Signature block] become pop-up on-hover / on-click toggle for mobile view.
- Quote / MultiQuote would simply be replaced with "Reply to this post"
- "Reply to this topic" would stay the same (Level 0 reply) OR will not be required at all since users could simply click reply on the Original Post.
- "More reply options" would simply be an options pop-up / toggle rather than a completely new window and could be available in-thread replies.
- Someone might reply at the wrong level
- Needs additional manpower on the forum framework, forum DB and forum layout
- Smaller signatures and user rectangle should be considered to favour density information
- Multiple subjects of discussion can happen in the same forum thread about the same post, in parallel.
- Much more organized way to navigate and present information
- You can skip to the aspects of a subject that interest you without having to read everything.
- Quotes are not really required anymore
- The forum is CSS based, hopefully that makes life a LOT easier
Edited by Cluster Fox, 08 November 2020 - 10:31 AM.