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If you have a really active conversation going you’ll notice that the comment nesting – while very cool – can get a bit out of hand. (ie. http://namoo.co.uk/)

A simple fix is to reduce the amount of left-margin applied to each comment.

to do this you can create a child theme, which you’ll probably need to do anyway. (great how-to here: http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/)

then add this code to the the bottom of style.css of your child theme (if you are inheriting the main buddypress css):

/* Control activity comment nesting */



div.activity-comments ul li > ul {

margin-top: 5px;

margin-left: 15px;     /* this controls comment nesting. Default value is 25px */

}



div.activity-comments ul li {

border-top: 2px solid #fff;

padding: 10px 15px 10px 0;

margin-left: 5px;      /* this controls comment nesting. Default value is 15px */

}

and set both the margin-left to 0 if you want to turn nesting off altogether, or reduce the values to calm it further.