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if threaded no quotes
if linear then display original comment as quotes

What?

in threaded view. the reply is indented so u know who did u reply to
but in linear mode u cannot tell. So in linear mode it would be nice if the original comment is included as quotes. like you do in forums i know its possible to do it through bbcode. but its ncie it is automatically included for linear view

Hm, I don't understadn why including quotes in linear view would help. The intention of a linear view is to NOT have a thread. That's what the threaded mode is for...

So I must say I don't really see where this would help. Of course it could be coded, though.

Regards,
Garvin

From what I understand of this request is that currently, if you use linear commenting, it is not possible to quote any previous replies. This makes the commenting system rather limited.

Of course, you could use threaded mode, which indicates what comment is being replied to.

But a "third option" would be to include the possibility of quoting via a button for a particular comment, as found in linear (flat/unthreaded) forums, just like in this phpbb one which is a flat forum.

It would be for people who don't like threaded views or find them confusing to follow, but still enable a more sophisticated discussion to take place through quoting,
I believe it would make a powerful feature addition for s9y, as most other blogs have simple linear or nested/threaded commenting

Actually then this could already be solved via the templates plus some javascript: http://nopaste.php-q.net/175369

Nothing to modify within core s9y, how's that?

Regards,
Garvin