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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pneumatik" data-source="post: 5154540" data-attributes="member: 21087">One nice thing about displaying the xp comments in the post is that it allows someone like me comment on something several pages back in a thread after the topic has moved on. It's a way to make marginalia comments, essentially.Hmmm ... now that I've written that out, it doesn't sound quite as awesome as I thought it would. If people want to respond to xp comments than a thread can get very complicated and messy. Still, I find the ability to comment on older posts in a thread fulfilling.EDIT: I stole the term, and perhaps the entire way of thinking about xp, from the marginalia at lumpley.comEDIT 2: The post author's way to respond to xp comments would be through edits, I guess. From here we're only a step or two from creating a completely separate sub-thread based on a post. Like forking, only the post remains in place. Then you could use some sort of evaluation system (xps, maybe, or number of posts, or a non-xp ranking system) that could elevate the sub-thread to its own thread, again like an ex post facto (pardon the pun) fork. I'm not asking for any of this, I'm just thinking out loud.</blockquote>