By kdorff on

I have a viewing option that I have enabled so comments appear to be flat, ordered by date of posting. This is the view I want, but, the comments are really still a tree. The fact that they are still a tree creates two problems

  1. Users cannot edit their posts if somebody replies to their post. I want them to be able to edit their posts at any time.
  2. If there is a duplicate post or something inappropriate or whatever, I want to be able to delete the post, BUT, if I do so now it will delete ALL of the posts below the want I want to delete. This is very inconvenient.

How do I make it so any "reply" does a reply to the base message, not to the comment? I have scoured the settings and configurations and don't see a way to enable this. Please help.

Also, I would love to "flatten" the existing comments to fix existing messages. Is this at all possible? This is a lower priority over making new messages be flat, but, would still be VERY nice. FYI: I am not afraid of running a sql statement or two.

Kevin