[Clark Gilbert]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Me? I like threaded, but most users in the linear view reply to the thread and not indivual posts within the thread, causing weird branches to spawn out of the middle (usually the bottom of the first linear page) and make threaded a game of searching the thread for little weird branches that pop out.

I recently switched over to linear mode because of that exact "problem" with threaded. When people reply to a post, but just reply at the end of a thread it doesn't make sense.