How so, TliC?

(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Thu 7 May 2009, 17:48, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

See how I'm replying to your reply?
On the main page the count of replies won't increase. So there's no way of telling when a thread is updated except by going in to each one and scrolling through the whole thread looking for stuff that's unfamiliar.

Instead of seeing that a post has a new reply and going in and scrolling straight to the bottom.

Hidden nested replies (i.e. only the original post is shown on the main page) is a pain in the arse, especially on a mobile phone.

It works for QOTW because there the first post is the point; on OT the discussion is the point, mostly.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 7 May 2009, 17:52, Reply)

I see where you're coming from
but find it impossible to care.

People can elect not to use the nested replies, all they'd have to do is reply to the main thread instead. No woman, no cry.
(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Thu 7 May 2009, 17:54, Reply)