New WordPress Comment Threading feature!

Introducing new threaded comments, comment paging, and comment order settings for your WordPress.com blog.

Step to  make things happen :

Go to Settings > Discussion in your dashboard, and you’ll discover three new options in the “Other comments settings” section:

• “Enable comments [x] levels deep”
• “Break comments into pages with [x] comments per page and the [first or last] page displayed by default”
• “Comments should be displayed with the [newer or older] comments at the top of each page”

With the threaded comments option, you can :

• Connect and interact with your readers while easily keeping track of who’s saying what to whom.
• Control the conversation by setting the number of levels allowed in your comment threads, from 1 to 10. (Ten levels deep means nine replies under each comment).
  • where to cut the thread.
  • display the first or last page of comments as the starting point.

I suggest setting threaded comments to about 3 levels deep, to keep the conversation focused. Here’s how that looks with the Contempt theme: