[whimsy]

Bleh. It looks pretty useless without threading.

EDIT: By threading, I mean conversation threading; this isn't a misplaced comment about the performance of La Brea.

[cheald]

I concur. I've never really found it useful.

[dlsspy]

It's useful in that it lets you know that there's a conversation going on somewhere else when you're looking at the comments on the page. It might be enough to say, ``active conversation as of x [unit of time] ago over here: [link]''