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Originally Posted by cquarello

I think they do generate a new thread, because how else would it only display topics relevent to the article?

Ah, I didn't notice the comments below.

It's not a new thread in the sense it has its own table reserved for articles in the MySQL db.

Like "thread" is for threads, more than likely there isn't a "article" table for articles.

Like Zachery suggested, they probably created a hidden forum (or many) where the reviews are stored.

Then they do a regular query to grab the thread, like I suggested in my above post, and that many portal systems do to grab announcements.

But then it continues with another query to grab all the posts from that thread--which would be all those posts shown at the bottom of the thread.

Sitepoint.com also does this for its articles, although it has an ArticleBot post a non-hidden thread in a forum relative to the topic, and then members can respond to it.

e.g. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/get...ed-with-pear/3