Lack of Effective Flag Integrity Controls

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

If this is related to exploding subtopics; Lets move it here

How to avoid an explosion of sub-topics in a topic

These are my thoughts, with an implicit question of how members and mods might respond, when a thread starts to go exponential. Discourse doesn’t offer threaded discussions, although it does have a sort of back-pointer, in the case that a post is a reply to a previous reply. It also allows for quotes from previous replies. Overall, if a topic has more than a handful of replies already, it’s possible that the next reply will be a general response to the topic, or to the head post a specific …