Hello everyone,
I am trying to develop a forum based website to help people of my religious website.

http://www.vedadrishti.com/?q=node/27

That is the example of a problem I am having, Drupal ONLY allows you to reply to a comment if you want that comment to turn up underneath like a thread. Or you have to reply to the post in which case your reply would be the first on the list, and hence its not like a forum anymore. The problem with reply to a comment is that the reply is indented which in turn causes the following replies to be indented. Is this a drupal problem or a theme problem? Can I be able to fix it?

Please help! This is urgent, Im doing a voluntary service and I have to complete this soon

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ajaysolutions CreditAttribution: ajaysolutions commented
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I've just been having a proper play with comments in Drupal 6.20 myself today, and here's what I found;

With relation to your situation, you're saying that you want it to be like a forum, and I think the problem you have at the moment is that if you "Reply" to a comment, the reply goes directly under the original comment AND it's indented.

If the problem you're experiencing is:

  1. You don't want replies to be displayed directly under the original comment they are replying to... Go to admin/content/types/ and "edit" the content-type you are having the issue with. Under "Comment settings" for that content-type, change the Default display mode from "Threaded list" to "Flat list". This prevents replies from being grouped with the original comment.
  2. You do want replies grouped with the original comment, but you don't want them indented... This is simply a CSS adjustment. With "Threaded list" enabled (as above) each reply will be included inside the following code;
<div class="indent">
  The code for your reply will be here.
</div>

Change the CSS for the "indent" class to override the indentation. This will keep your replies together and prevent them from all being indented.

If you would like people to be able to quote each others comments (like on a forum), check out the quote module, which I'm using, and which generally acts the same as "Reply" but also includes a quote of the original comment.

I see from a quick Google search of my original problem (the same search that lead me here) that you posted this elsewhere and also found your own solution. The solution you found was here:

http://planken.org/2009/01/28/limiting-indentations-threaded-comments-dr...

This is the solution to my problem as well - too much indenting! I only want one indent, personally. Nice find. :)