Re: Flat vs. Threaded?
Fine, I give up. You are apparently going to turn this into pointless semantics about what constitutes a "forum" and only things that don't allow nested comments count, so when people discuss movies on IMDB it's not functioning as a "forum", when people read usenet using any newsreader that shows things threaded it's not functioning equivalently to a forum, etc.
If you think that slashdot isn't a forum, then you haven't spent much time there. Yes, it has headlines on the frontpage and you have the option of just reading headlines in which case it is a news site. But a large portion of the populace there is there to argue and debate just like here and most of them don't even read the articles. The only practical difference between those sites and the forums you name is whether it requires approval to post a story/ start a thread.
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