malamour (asker) Aug 29, 2016:

THANKS TOO Didier Fourcot Very clear!

Didier Fourcot Aug 29, 2016:

noisy traffic of comments on the thread (topic) and for congealing, I think like Tony "extracted" or "coming from" all that

malamour (asker) Aug 29, 2016:

THANKS Tony M Very helpful!!!

Tony M Aug 29, 2016:

@ Asker That's really a separate term to ask in a separate question ;-)

No, I wouldn't think 'congealing' means "being supposed to be true"; I can't quite see why the writer would use 'congeal' in this sort of way, but the basic meaning is of something 'gelling' or 'setting' or I suppose here 'coming together' — so I think the idea must be that lists of people to be e-mailed (perahps actual e-mail addreses?) are 'being formed' — either because people making simialr cmments / with similar opinions are contacting each other, or maybe someone is monitoring the comments to see whom it would be worth sending an e-mail-out to...

Does that help?

malamour (asker) Aug 29, 2016:

Thanks, and one more... then what about 'congealing'? Is that same as 'being supposed to be true'?

Tony M Aug 29, 2016:

@ Asker I think you may be confusing yourself with your parsing here.

It is 'comment thread' (you need to read that as a whole) and then separately 'traffic'.

In this context, 'traffic' means it is very busy — there are a lot of people posting.

And where they are posting is in the 'comment thread' — i.e. typically comments under an original post, and rather than, say, posting lots of 'new topics'.