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This sums up internet commenting in 2016. Congratulations on entirely missing the point because you chose to focus on an irrelevant and pointless detail, which

by defen 11y ago

This sums up internet commenting in 2016. Congratulations on entirely missing the point because you chose to focus on an irrelevant and pointless detail, which I'm sure will spawn a stupid subthread that changes no one's mind.

caf 11y ago
The great thing about threaded textual commenting is that you can have a sub-thread to discuss a side point, without removing the ability to debate the main point in parallel. The comment struck me as incredibly anachronistic, bordering on offensively so.
- deleted 11y ago
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- doktrin 11y ago
  > bordering on offensively so. please don't.
readymade 11y ago
And the parent thread will?
spajus 11y ago
HN needs "collapse whole thread" feature. Badly.
- MawNicker 11y ago
  +∞ Way to hijack a useless subthread and do something useful with it. Great meta-point. Honestly. This feature alone makes the comments on Reddit bearable for consumption.
- MagerValp 11y ago
  An official solution would be great, but in the meantime there was a thread last year with lots of options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496
paulddraper 11y ago
Yeah, that comment is way off-base. Should be 1967. </s>