Maybe something fancy like, but less ugly colours than, the French style: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro

Another option is the standard way of having boxes like in forums and such.

Also, we could have each thread boxed, and then at the bottom of the box, a label 'Replies: ', which would nest the replies.

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