Hello Brent,

There's actually already a settings for that as you can see from my screen shot here, http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-02-03_0152.png

Hi Mark,
I might be completely misunderstanding that setting, but doesn't that stop comments after X number of levels? I have mine defaulted to 5, and on the 5th level, it does not show the reply icon, meaning if you want to reply, you have to go up to the 4th level to reply.

What I want to do is set the number of levels to 99, for example, but have the indentation stop after 5, so visually, the columns don't get smaller and smaller and smaller.

Am I misunderstanding the settings?

Hello Brent,

You did not misunderstand it. The idea of yours is want to stop indent the comment once it reach certain level. It is the same as user can't reply to the comment once the comment is already reach the maximum level. They only can reply to parent comment. The structure will be the same. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hi Nik,
Thanks for responding. The issue is that it is not exactly the same thing, from what I can tell. Take a look at the attachment image. At the top of that image is the bottom of the 4th level in the thread. You see it still has the respond button. The next post doesn't have the respond button, because it is the 5th level, which is in my settings. I have that set because a 6th level would be indented too far from a UI point of view. But I still want a respond button there, because now nobody can reply to that comment directly. The next comment down, shows how I had to reply to my own comment above that to continue the thread. So I could change the settings to allow a 6th level, but then the widths of the replies would get smaller and smaller and smaller.

So what I think is best is to allow more levels, so that 5th level comment will also have a reply button, but the following levels will not be indented anymore, because that would start to look ridiculous with columns that are 10px wide.

Does that make sense?

Ah, I see. Thanks for the heads up on this Brent