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Good post. If I understand your point correctly, you're saying that perhaps we should link directly to the /comments page of certain posts on Reddit, instead o

• Alex3917 20y ago
  Basically. Let's say you have one NYTimes article. There might be thirty discussions about this article scattered across usenet and the web. So on average, the best discussion will most likely not be on any one site consistently. The probability that a single set of people will create the most intelligent discussion about a wide range of topics is just very low. So yes, basically, that it would be better to link to the best discussion for each article.
• jkush 20y ago
  I think linking to a discussion about a topic is better than just linking to the topic but is still flawed. If you think about the scope of what's happening, the scope is usually very tight. At most, the conversation goes on for a few days, then essentially fades away as the topic (really, the post the comments are connected with) slides down the list and gets buried. Once the post has been fully buried, the conversation has effectively stopped. The thing that would be really great would be to link prior conversations to new, but related topics. Let's say that next week it turns out that Imus made those comments under duress. Some lunatic pointed a gun at him and forced him to say those things. Instead of rehashing all that stuff again, it'd be great to dredge that conversation up as a starting point. I know I'm not making this very clear. But I tried.