And yet: If you mistakenly click the wrong one of the two very miniscule arrows for a vote, there is no way to fix this mistake; New users can make unpopular

And yet: If you mistakenly click the wrong one of the two very miniscule arrows for a vote, there is no way to fix this mistake; New users can make unpopular comments which will auto-ban all of their future comments -- even when they say things worth discussing -- and there is no way for them to crawl out of that hole (and worse, they often don't even realize that it's happening); Reply pages tend to expire while writing long, well-researched, carefully-considered comments, requiring those rare commenters to copy-paste the contents of their reply (and worse, inadvertently discouraging deep discussions); Users are never notified of replies to their comments or submissions, which in effect motivates people to spend more time on the site polling it (as opposed to a useful push-type notification), and also effectively limits discussions to a du jour shallowness because an active user is unlikely to notice any reply made to them a few days later. I'm not so certain that the author of that article would find this little forum to be a suitable example of his kind of "complex simplicity". I think it's actually a bit the opposite: the internals are simple, which requires more complex behavior on the part of the users.