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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956811 and marked it off-topic.

• pedrocr 9y ago
  This is quite surprising. I assume you mean it's offtopic for this particular discussion and not offtopic for HN in general right? Even so it seems strange to shut off a discussion like that just because it started from a tangent of a topic. What's the benefit? Edit: there are also 2 other sibling comments that are about the same topic and left behind.
  • sctb 9y ago
    The discussion isn't shut off, it's just that users shouldn't have to scroll through a long digression about credit cards at the top of a thread about the Talos.
    • pedrocr 9y ago
      The context of the original comment gets lost and the [-] functionality makes skipping subthreads easy enough so I don't see the advantage.