i'm liking the way i i can turn the tree to the right--which duplicates the original experimental post format, but it seems much more dynamic...

what puzzles me is where/how would folks find this visualization? and there's that scary moment when you create a post but it's not made visual because nobody's responded to it...

(now THAT's deep!)

of course (given the query this steps off from) i don't know if this is a clarification (=simplification?) or complexification, but really, i'm just trying to get my comments onto the display....

Now I want to see what happens if I start a strand that doesn't lead off from Jody's original one...

Testing

i think it does complexify...

well, i think this increases clarity in some respects since it allows us to see a 'whole picture' (though we can't really read w/o going back into a linear format) and suggests the pattern of responses in terms of our categories.  i guess not so clarifying in the sense that you have to do some screen-hopping to really get the full picture...

...that i actually see how we can re-formulate the way the web displays....

complexifying:)

well, i think this increases clarity in some respects since it allows us to see a 'whole picture' (though we can't really read w/o going back into a linear format) and suggests the pattern of responses in terms of our categories.  i guess not so clarifying in the sense that you have to do some screen-hopping to really get the full picture...

I certainly like this idea of the webby post! I especially like the fact that users can choose which way they want the tree to "grow," since different people conceptualize these things different so for one person it might make sense to grow down while another may like to visualize things left to right. 

(I'm not sure this is really complexifying, I just wanted to play around by adding a new relation that hadn't been chosen yet!)