Brian Boshes

Just upvoted. As a new Gather user, this is one feature that I think would be important for leveraging Gather as a world-class community building platform. 

For example, in trying to start a community from the ground up "thanking" or "welcoming" users is super important to make people feel heard when they first join; they aren't shouting into the void. We can still do that (via the newly launched "mentions" feature (THANK YOU)) but it gets messy when reading through a post to to see a bunch of community manager "thank yous" scattered throughout a post's comments. Would be much better if this was a reply to a comment instead (which could be hidden). 

Also, because there is no way to message a user directly via Gather from a peer to peer perspective, comment threads would allow community members to have side conversations that are not part of the main "thread" so to say. 

Two cents from a Product Manager at another co, PM-to-PM. :-)