Ok....I'm just thinking beyond this simple connection attached by a compliment.
Instead, I'm thinking a bit bigger. What if there was a (philosophical, medical, political, etc...) discussion that actually went to new places on Steemit.com? Later, someone searches Google and finds a topic where a discussion has occurred and they want in. Ideally, you're right it would be best to have replies hang out together on the exact same discussion....but, I guess we could just start it again.
The biggest drawback is that the original won't be able to have a link to the continuation. But maybe we can come up with a convention for continuation posts to make them easy to find.
just @ (name) the person so they can search for the continuation....but yes, frustration also felt...