I wonder if this is a problem with the branching structure of these sorts of discussion boards? Every comment is in some sense the start of a new conversation… it sometimes feels like there’s a tendency to want to grow a thread to meet that “whole conversation” measure. Maybe the issue is that little details don’t make it, so context gets pulled from the main thread?
It would be interesting is the site had the ability to make linear threads coming out of a comment, or start whole new branches. Then each branch could have an assorted “random asides” spot or something.
