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This is the feature I want most of anything. Why can't the threads page go on forever, paginated?
by dcurtis 18y ago
This is the feature I want most of anything. Why can't the threads page go on forever, paginated?
- apu 18y agoMy guess is that this was done to prevent trolls from going through someone's entire comment history and downmodding everything. (Not that this is impossible to do currently, but it's tougher than it would be if a user's comments were paginated out to infinity). Or it could just be a feature that was left out for lack of time/motivation.
- dcurtis 18y agoI assume the latter. After a week or so (I think), the downmod button disappears from all comments.
- deleted 18y ago[deleted]
- tptacek 18y agoIt also has the beneficial effect of ending stupid debates. Joel's BoS forum had other limitations (like lack of quoting and threading) that they kept because it improved the level of discourse.
- allenbrunson 18y agoactually, it is impossible to do currently. after a comment reaches a certain age, one or two days i think, you can't downvote it anymore.
- gruseom 18y agoI enthusiastically agree. I don't have time to keep a blog. If I did, I'd feel obligated to add to it and that's the last thing I need. The great thing about HN is that I just comment spontaneously when I'm moved to do so, and on several occasions this has led me to express thoughts that have been kicking around in my head for a long time, but which I never wrote down before. It would be nice to have access to the history of this. It would be even more useful to have the full history of other users' comments too. One of my favorite things to do on this site is run across an intelligent remark and then look back to see what else that person has had to say.