Besides "Reply to this" and "Parent", you can also see a few other links under a comment! There's "Thread from start", "Thread", and "Hide comments" - the higher up in our thread you go, the more comments you can hide. Hide comments is exactly what it sounds like, go ahead and give it a try! Then "Show comments" to get all those missing tags back.
"Thread" gives you a direct link to that comment and any comments nested under it. Go ahead and give that a try, too. That link is pretty much the same as the link that says...uh, "link", up near the timestamp in the comment header. I think the only difference is that one preserves your page style if you changed the way you're viewing the page...but, uh, that's kind of an edge case. Don't worry about it.
And then there's "Thread from start", which is super helpful. "Parent" takes you one comment up the chain, but "Thread from start" takes you all the way to the top of the thread - to the comment made directly under the post! If you want to read a thread from the very beginning, that link is your friend.
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Besides "Reply to this" and "Parent", you can also see a few other links under a comment! There's "Thread from start", "Thread", and "Hide comments" - the higher up in our thread you go, the more comments you can hide. Hide comments is exactly what it sounds like, go ahead and give it a try! Then "Show comments" to get all those missing tags back.
"Thread" gives you a direct link to that comment and any comments nested under it. Go ahead and give that a try, too. That link is pretty much the same as the link that says...uh, "link", up near the timestamp in the comment header. I think the only difference is that one preserves your page style if you changed the way you're viewing the page...but, uh, that's kind of an edge case. Don't worry about it.
And then there's "Thread from start", which is super helpful. "Parent" takes you one comment up the chain, but "Thread from start" takes you all the way to the top of the thread - to the comment made directly under the post! If you want to read a thread from the very beginning, that link is your friend.