Well but that's a cop-out answer. There are several very interesting discussions in that thread, as in other big threads (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sor

Well but that's a cop-out answer. There are several very interesting discussions in that thread, as in other big threads (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...). Would HN be better or worse off without them? Further, the conversations around link submissiones are one of the two core value propositions of HN (the other being the actual link curation, but I wouldn't be the first to say that the conversations are actually more valuable than the link curation itself). Shouldn't the platform be encouraging them (as long as they remain at the usual HN standards)?