You're right! With option 1, each thread in your post counts as a separate thread, whereas with option 2, every single thread in the post still goes to the post as a whole, which is how it is currently supposed to be.
So say your activity for the month looks like this:
- a post with one ten-comment thread and two five-comment threads - a ten-comment thread in character A's post - a five-comment thread in character B's post
Under Option 1, you've made AC. You can count each ten-comment thread as a proof and combine the other three as a third proof. Under Option 2 you haven't made AC yet because you're counting your post as one proof, the ten-comment thread as one proof, and then.... you're missing five comments so you need to either tag more on that thread or go do two more threads to get the "at least three short threads adding up to 10 or more comments" proof.
Essentially this means that option 1 is always going to be more efficient than option 2, but it also means that, by option 2, if you have a ton of 2-comment threads you can just lump them all in together instead of linking each one separately to add them up.
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So say your activity for the month looks like this:
- a post with one ten-comment thread and two five-comment threads
- a ten-comment thread in character A's post
- a five-comment thread in character B's post
Under Option 1, you've made AC. You can count each ten-comment thread as a proof and combine the other three as a third proof. Under Option 2 you haven't made AC yet because you're counting your post as one proof, the ten-comment thread as one proof, and then.... you're missing five comments so you need to either tag more on that thread or go do two more threads to get the "at least three short threads adding up to 10 or more comments" proof.
Essentially this means that option 1 is always going to be more efficient than option 2, but it also means that, by option 2, if you have a ton of 2-comment threads you can just lump them all in together instead of linking each one separately to add them up.