I had never bothered to play with those settings before. I just skimmed your writeup, saw your Example: "Replies header depth" = 10 and "Replies text depth" = 2: the discussion is shown 10 levels deep, but only the first 2 levels show the actual text of the discussion. That's all I needed; now I've set them up. I think a lot of people are example-oriented more than lengthy-discussion-oriented.

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