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woolfy
In [How do I change my preferences?] is explained how to set the depth level of which the nodes of a discussion are displayed on a page. And of how many of those levels the content of a reply is shown. The current explanation is a bit confusing for first time readers. Please consider my alternative text.
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Please note that I have added double quotes (" ") around field names for clarity. And I divided the alternative text in 3 paragraphs, also for clarity.
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Current text:
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Note Configuration<br>
These settings control the display of a single page view of a discussion thread. The Replies header depth setting controls how many levels of node headers are displayed on a page. When replies in a thread are deeper than this level, a box appears with the text "Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here". To view nodes below this depth, click on a lower level node in the thread of interest
to make it the top-level node on a new screen. The Replies text depth setting controls how many levels deep the node text is displayed on a single page. Nodes below the Replies text depth, but above the Replies header depth will be shown with just a header (title, author, date, link), and no body text. To view the text of these nodes, click on a lower level node in the thread of interest to make it the top-level node on a new screen. The User Settings page allows you to set the Replies header depth below the Replies text depth, in which case the Replies header depth takes precedence.
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Alternative text:
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Note Configuration<br>
These settings control the display of a single page view of a discussion thread. The "Replies header depth" setting controls how many levels of node headers are displayed on a page. When replies in a thread are deeper than this level, a box appears with the text "Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here". To view a node below this depth, click on it (or on any of the lower level nodes in the thread of interest) to make it the top-level node on a new screen.
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The "Replies text depth" setting controls how many levels deep the node text is displayed on a single page. Nodes of which the level is deeper than set with "Replies text depth" will be shown with just a header (title, author, date, link), and no body text. Of course, no nodes are shown deeper than the level set with "Replies header depth". To view the text of a node of which the text is not displayed, click on it (or on any of the lower level nodes in the thread of interest) to make it the top-level node on a new screen. By the way, the User Settings page allows you to set the "Replies header depth" below the "Replies text depth", in which case the "Replies header depth" takes precedence.
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Example: "Replies header depth" = 10 and "Replies text depth" = 2: the discussion is shown 10 levels deep, but only the first 2 levels show the actual text of the discussion; the next 8 levels only show the header information of the replies.