Button to start new thread needed when reading messages in a current thread

It should be made easier to start a new thread when your display is of the messages in a current thread. Newcomers will sometimes continue an existing thread with a new topic, perhaps because figuring out how to start a new thread is, at that point, not simple. You have to go back to the forum display to find a "New Thread" button.

Thanks for the feedback. We actually had the layout you describe for quite a while here at LQ and it seemed more confusing to new members than the current layout (ie. we got quite a few New Threads that were clearly meant to be Replies). Do keep in mind that if you have have 0 posts associated with your account, there is a large link at the top of every page explaining how to post a new thread.

--jeremy

Originally Posted by jeremy (ie. we got quite a few New Threads that were clearly meant to be Replies)

That would certainly be worse. Thanks for the explanation.

The case I'm running into now is over here, where the OP keeps continuing his original thread with new problems that are just similar enough to cause confusion.