I have to respectfully disagree. I'm a member of numerous forums and been a moderator on several of them. In the spirit of being able to find information through the search function, it is much nicer to have all information about a certain topic in one thread about that topic.

The issues that make the above "ideal" scenario complicated are some of the following:

• UBB.threads defaults to a strictly "threaded" view instead of inline. This is about the only forum I've seen that does this, and I changed it simply because it's harder for me to find information and read posts.
• Long threads give people technical errors when viewed. The likely cause is not one's computer, but is probably a fault of either the UBB.threads software or the server itself.
• People do not search for an existing thread before they post a new one. Well, all I can say to that one is "Stop it!"

That's just my view on the subject. Feel free to disagree. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />