Why is the "In reply to" indicator suppressed sometimes?

[sam]

@DennisArmstrong

Okay, thanks for explaining, though I don’t think that that works very well. We’ll see.

@noahdjango

the problem with this is: without threading and without an indicator, the replier may not contextualize his comment as in response to the above comment.

FYI, I added a site level setting @Antinous or @beschizza can disable here if they wish to remove the suppression forum wide.

suppress_reply_directly_above : “Don’t show in-reply-to on a post when there is a single reply directly above”

I think the default is probably ok, I personally prefer the extra context and noise but understand @codinghorror’s reluctence to enable it by default.