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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 7954383" data-attributes="member: 7808">I understand the desire for moderation in this.  Sometimes, you really do want to discuss something that is of limited interest.  That's a legitimate desire.  Heck, it's the entire reason this community exists.  But if that thing is tangentially related to another topic that is much more popular or hotly debated, it can be impossible to discuss the limited interest without getting drowned out.  Especially when your "limited interest topic" is something that demands a slower discussion (i.e. requires longer, thought out posts, possibly even with math) and it gets drowned out by a page full of sarcastic one liners.Is there any way to bring back forked threads?  At one point this was on option that I think worked well for this.  If someone starts a series of posts that drift away from the main topic, someone could just create a new forked thread to continue that topic and leave the original discussion intact (done tactfully, of course).</blockquote>