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In reply to the discussion: DU General Election Season Begins Soon: What You Need To Know [View all]unc70
(6,114 posts)As I understand, the only context on an alert will be just the direct ancestors back to the OP. The way things have been on many alerts to date, one really needs at least the context of older siblings. In many threads, sibling posts are the main back and forth of the discussion, especially where they are nominally responses to the OP but really responses to older siblings.
For example, in a thread with 100 posts, an alert on the last post, a "reply" to the OP with 20 older siblings, would present to a jury with only the OP as a context.
Maybe things will be so different under the new system it won't matter, but under the current system I have needed that additional context over a third of the time.
Obviously I do not know whereof I speak.