Re^4: OT: thread vs. tree of responses (was: perlmonks site)

these are not exactly threads, but rather trees of responses.

I wouldn't know the difference. Could you help me along?

I am sorry for asking an OT question, but I am curious. So a real thread would have a "last response"?

Cheers, Sören

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Re^5: OT: thread vs. tree of responses (was: perlmonks site) by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2014 at 17:59 UTC
A "thread" of conversation would be a single chain of A, B, C, D where D replied to C which was replying to B replying to A. All linear, with exactly one response to everything except the last post. A tree, on the other hand, branches. For example, The original post gets 3 replies (A, B, C). Three more replies are made to A (A1, A2, A3), nobody replies to B, and C gets one reply (C1). You can see this in the layout of the posts, with each level of the tree indented slightly further, and the "Re^N" subject lines incrementing with depth by default. Re^3 is replying to the closest Re^2 above it.	[reply]

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Re^5: OT: thread vs. tree of responses (was: perlmonks site)
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2014 at 17:59 UTC

A "thread" of conversation would be a single chain of A, B, C, D where D replied to C which was replying to B replying to A. All linear, with exactly one response to everything except the last post.

A tree, on the other hand, branches. For example, The original post gets 3 replies (A, B, C). Three more replies are made to A (A1, A2, A3), nobody replies to B, and C gets one reply (C1).

You can see this in the layout of the posts, with each level of the tree indented slightly further, and the "Re^N" subject lines incrementing with depth by default. Re^3 is replying to the closest Re^2 above it.

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