On threads

The word "thread" in this context worries me. A thread is one-dimensional, a chain of replies to the immediately previous post. Here on RW, at least, discussions do not work that way: people go back, reply to earlier posts, expand, and the structure becomes branching and multidimensional. I'm not sure what bearing this has on anything, but I'm sure it's relevant somehow.

Gee, I wonder if there is a way to reply to an earlier post that has a reply button in the lower righthand corner?

Yeah, that's why I'm not sure if it has relevance.

You mean other than the fact it puts your post one indent in from the one you are replying to?

Yeah, but wherever the software decides to put it. ħuman 02:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

"It is not necessary to sign your post with four tildes. The signature is shown automatically." Fuck off. I sign so I can see my local timestamp.

Interesting. Now the sig I entered is UTC and the auto sig is local.

This format still sucks ass.

The timestamps for signing have been UTC since January.

There is a gadget that converts timestamps in pages to local time. That gadget works on lqt comments too, but not when you reply, because it only runs the conversion when you reload the page.