Also, since the staff doesn't particularly like meta discussion this thread is probably going to be sunk by the moderators pretty quickly. It's not meta if it'

Also, since the staff doesn't particularly like meta discussion this thread is probably going to be sunk by the moderators pretty quickly. It's not meta if it's the topic of the post. If it's a problem, Dan will stop by and tell us. I think usually it's user flags that sink such threads rather than moderators. If not, just adding proper timestamps to the comments somewhere (even just as data attributes) would make it easier for people to do it themselves through scripting. The comment and article id's are assigned sequentially, and should already work for ordering and time comparisons. I think this is what the various browser extensions are using for this purpose.