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I like flat comments that are ordered by date in a forum. Nothing surpasses a vBulletin-style board in my opinion.

Forums are for a different style of discussion than what is done here on HN. I'm thinking of tech support or more general questions and answers where when a question has been answered the thread is over and it fall.

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Yeah the stagger comments kind of bother me personally and make it hard for me to follow. I like flat comments. But I think that is because that is what I am used to on the forums I frequent.

Ok, personally I really like the conversations that staggered comments allow - one group of people can go off on their own little tangent while the rest of the users attend thier own conversations within the topic thread without having to randomly create new conversations

I definitely see the benefit, because I can ignore all other posts. But when the topic or thread gets big, it just gets overwhelming for me. But I guess that can be the case either way.

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