Definitely &#x27;caused confusion, in particular:<p>A) @hafling&#x27;s comment (11195956) now looks like it is directly referencing the parent discussion (therefore it&#x27;s lost its context).<p>B) Your comment about detaching it (11196963) references the comment it was detached from, <i>BUT</i> because a link to a sub-thread opens the linked sub-thread as a parent thread, it appears to be a brand-spanking new thread (if I haven&#x27;t properly articulated this, click <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11195895" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11195895</a> and you&#x27;ll get the idea)<p>C) I don&#x27;t see any indication that the offtopic sub-thread has been marked as offtopic.<p>Combining these, B makes it look like the relevant conversation has been completely detached <i>from the relevant conversation</i>, while A and C makes it look like the off-topic conversation has been left, but it&#x27;s now lost it&#x27;s context.<p><i>I absolutely agree, the sub-thread is off-topic.  But the detachment result is just downright confusing!</i><p>I&#x27;d rather there be a visible flag that a sub-thread is off-topic with a way to collapse the off-topic thread (something I&#x27;d love to see anyway for several other reasons), maybe even auto-collapse an off-topic thread (somewhat similarly to the way dead-threads default to not being shown, and when they are shown they are flagged as such).<p>Just my thoughts after being really confused!  (Kinda ironic, given my original comment on the sub-thread - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11196732" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11196732</a>)<p>@dang - Special thanks for helping me understand what was going on!<p>edited: trying to make my statement slightly more clear