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  bliblablog · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:49 pm

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  Hi everybody
  I’m searching for a definition, I mean, an expression for the following:

  If someone can write a comment to a post, another one can write a comment to this comment. so far, so good.
  But if there starts a real discussion and up to 30 people write a comment, they often have to write, e.g. “@ firstcomment: I mean this and that” or “@ thirdcomment: I don’t mean this or that”.
  I already saw some blogs where you therefor can have another category: saying, that you want to comment exactly e.g. the 16th comment -> and your comment is shown on the blog directly under the 16th comment.

  What is the right expression for this? And is it possible on wordpress too?

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  bliblablog · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:51 pm

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  ( like a “subcomment”)

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  katm · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:52 pm

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  I think the term you want is “threading”. And no, we can’t do it here at wp.com.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:54 pm

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  We do not have “threaded comments” at wordpress.com. There is a “threaded comments” plugin for wordpress.org bloggers. The problem for asking for this feature is that this is a multi-user blogging platform so whatever plugin may be installed like Akismet applies to all blogs. There are no individual plugin installations, except on the blogs of VIP hosted bloggers.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:54 pm

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  I don’t know the official term, but it is comment threads where you can reply either to a specific comment, or just make a general comment that is not part of a thread. It isn’t available here at wordpress.com unfortunately.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:55 pm

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  {wave to katm – the edit feature on this forum has been turned off since yesterday}

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  bliblablog · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:57 pm

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  Great, thank you all, at least I now know the right expression… ;-)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:58 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  bliblablog · Member · Oct 31, 2007 at 3:59 pm

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  (now I know why I couldn’t edit anything.. I already thought that I did a mistake again… ;-) )