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I can see your point, though I think in some (many?) cases "this is not news" stands for "we have discussed this before, and therefore don't be surprised if man
by frossie 16y ago
I can see your point, though I think in some (many?) cases "this is not news" stands for "we have discussed this before, and therefore don't be surprised if many people don't weigh in, as the horse has been thrashed already"
- chasingsparks 16y agoIn those cases, I think the karmic voting system does the job of hiding redundancy more than the comments that say "this is not news." Especially because the submitter and interested commenters usually take it offensively, (even though it is rarely meant that way,) resulting in a lot of meta comments.