LiveJournal has two nice features with its comments system: email notification for all comment-writers, and threads. Movable Type 4 doesn't support either out of the box, but the MT user community has come through with plugins that implement them, namely Arvind Satyanarayan's Simply Threaded and Robert Synnott's Comment Subscribe.
I have installed both, and activated the former here; you will notice the lovely new "Reply" links next to each comment. I've opted to arrange all comments in strict chronological order, linking threaded comments via hypertext, rather than use LJ-style indented hierarchies (which the plugin also supports). We'll see how well it works, once it starts getting some use.
Sadly, email notification isn't going to work until I can configure this machine to send mail at all. (And this explains why I haven't been getting any mail about new comments on my posts.) I am hopeless about such things, and plan on appealing to wiser friends for help tomorrow.
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