I finally decided to have a play with nested comments for b2evo, which is something Scott asked me about a fair tad ago and, barring a few bits and bobs, I've now got a plugin that achieves this.

At the moment it's not available for download as it still needs work to add the depth to each of the comments so that they can be styled easily, and I still need to work out what to do with child comments if you decide to delete their parent. The basic choices are to change their parent to the grandparent, remove the parent completely and return them to their date order position, or to delete them along with their parent. Of course the ideal solution would be to offer all three choices and leave it to you to decide when you delete a comment, but I haven't even begun to look into how achievable that would be.

Once I've sorted out all of that I'll make another post and attach the plugin, along with basic instructions for installing and using it.

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