Threading
DISQUS allows comments to be threaded. The advantage is you can reply to a specific comment and the entire conversation will be in one place. The disadvantage is that new comments aren’t at the bottom. They’ll be underneath whatever they reply to, and in a long list of comments, hard to find. And readers sometimes reply to the wrong comment. It can be confusing.
So, dear readers, which do you prefer? Flat: most recent comment is at the bottom? Or threaded: replies are beneath the comment replied to?
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It wouldn't be so bad if the comment links on the right would take us to the precise comment.
Until then, I vote FLAT.
(but I'm conservative, so I assume my progressive friends will vote the opposite. Or is this something we can agree on? Just having some fun here.)