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Stack Exchange is not a commenting system. Source: I am one of the co-founders.

• alanbernstein 9y ago
  That seems like an unnecessary nitpick, considering Stack Exchange clearly includes a "comment" feature. Would you care to elaborate?
  • neilsimp1 9y ago
    It's a Q&A system with commenting on the Q's and A's. Similar, but different, I guess.
    • Spivak 9y ago
      Sure, but even the QA is basically a post/comment system adapted to solve a different problem. It's not so weird to take the lessons learned there and apply it back to general comment systems. - A reputation scheme for both posters and commenters. - Pinned responses from the poster. - The comments appear in a 'best' ordering. - Bad comments get pushed down and hidden.
  • icebraining 9y ago
    I think codinghorror is just annoyed that Discourse wasn't mentioned :) (Just kidding!)