Total newbie here, and reading the above leaves me confused. I've been using patchwork less than 24 hours. My second or third post was marked as a #fork by patchwork (in some status line attached to that post) which at the time I assumed meant that I successfully started a new sub-conversation.

Now, I'm not so sure. Why would patchwork tell me I have a fork? If this is bad, shouldn't it tell me "that's bad", and suggest how to resolve it? Or auto-resolve it? After using patchwork for maybe an hour, I need to already worry about arcana?