I'm on the opposite side of that argument. I love threading.
It allows me to easily have multiple different conversations in the same channel at the same time.
And, if I need to, in the future, share that conversation with someone, I can link them directly to that one thread.
What would I do otherwise, when I needed a team mate to get up-to speed on a convo that happened months ago... Hey go back to August 8th at 1PM and read everything while filtering out all the things that aren't relavent? Crazy talk!
Edit: I will say for this to work, a higher up at your company needs to slap people when they don't use threads. In my org. our CTO is very good about reminding people to use threads.
It allows me to easily have multiple different conversations in the same channel at the same time.
And, if I need to, in the future, share that conversation with someone, I can link them directly to that one thread.
What would I do otherwise, when I needed a team mate to get up-to speed on a convo that happened months ago... Hey go back to August 8th at 1PM and read everything while filtering out all the things that aren't relavent? Crazy talk!
Edit: I will say for this to work, a higher up at your company needs to slap people when they don't use threads. In my org. our CTO is very good about reminding people to use threads.