Let users reply to comments

Previously: comments only replied to posts
Problem: reddit has really neat threaded conversations of comments replying to comments replying to comments, replying to (etc)
Solution: 
-make comments belong to a polymorphic "parent" which they are responding to (either posts or other comments)
-make the _comment partial recursive, so that a comment displays all its replies just below it in a nested list
should i be editing a rails function here? am i going too crazy for tell don't ask? is that possible?