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Also, doubling response time every time is essentially exponential backoff, a strategy I mainly use when trying to let an uncomfortable discussion die gracefull
by donquichotte 11y ago
Also, doubling response time every time is essentially exponential backoff, a strategy I mainly use when trying to let an uncomfortable discussion die gracefully.
- cousin_it 11y agoI think HN uses a variant of that to prevent long back-and-forth discussions.
- thomasahle 11y agoYou mean, if HN detects a long back-forth, it'll not show your post to anyone for a while after you've submitted it? That's quite interesting. Is this used anywhere else on the web?
- Jtsummers 11y agoThe reply link won't appear immediately for deeply nested comments. Initially a minute or two, eventually many minutes. The comments still appear as fast as you allow with your "delay" setting in your profile (2 minutes for me: time to edit, and time to delete the stupid messages that felt good to write but that I shouldn't have written).
- cousin_it 11y agoSometimes (always?) the reply link doesn't show up in the comment thread, but shows up when you visit the individual comment through its permalink. That's probably a bug though.
- Jtsummers 11y agoAlways and I think it's deliberate. Those who know can keep it going, but it requires deliberate effort (just enough more than clicking reply) that it might stop some of the back and forth ("Do I really need to put in this much effort for this conversation?").
- dang 11y agoNo, it's on purpose. PG added it years ago, presumably as a speed bump.
- desdiv 11y agoIn rapid back-and-forth discussions, the HN interface won't show the "reply" link for a short cool down period. So it's not letting you post (temporarily), instead of hiding your post after you have submitted it.
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