data point for you
So far (knock wood) lightning_war and its associated journals have not suffered comment rot. So far.
(I am NOT tempting fate here!!!)
We have a rule in our game, because we don't like deeply indented threads or comment trees that collapse, that instead of replying to comments, we make new comments on all the RP posts every time, and then when you get the 50th comment it paginates, which is much easier to read than going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, in trees of collapsed comments where it's easy to lose your place.
Is it possible, since many of the complaints have been about important RP posts with hundreds of comments, that something involved with the comment collapsing/threading is causing the problem?
(Also, if this is a contributing factor, other RPers may wish to try to do it the same way we do. Here's one of our mercifully-still intact long threads.)
(I am NOT tempting fate here!!!)
We have a rule in our game, because we don't like deeply indented threads or comment trees that collapse, that instead of replying to comments, we make new comments on all the RP posts every time, and then when you get the 50th comment it paginates, which is much easier to read than going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, in trees of collapsed comments where it's easy to lose your place.
Is it possible, since many of the complaints have been about important RP posts with hundreds of comments, that something involved with the comment collapsing/threading is causing the problem?
(Also, if this is a contributing factor, other RPers may wish to try to do it the same way we do. Here's one of our mercifully-still intact long threads.)