@codinghorror said:How would any future users ever find that completely unrelated meta-conversation (and to be clear, by meta I mean "discussion about the discussion software itself"), buried in there?
You know, "basic discovery of information on the Internet" generally involves hyperlinking. But i guess splitting topics works too, thought it's not basic anymore, it's "assisted discovery of information"
Fwiw, keep in mind that out-of-threadtopic quoting won't help with discovery of such reply from the original post.