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I can't help but wonder why this wasn't posted as a comment in pg's thread? It kinda screams "my idea is better than everyone else's", while at the same time, i

• gnosis 16y ago
  As of right now, there are 533 comments in that thread. How many people are actually going to read through all of them? I know I stopped after the first 20 or 30 comments. There is another deficiency in the HN commenting system that rarely gets spoken of. And that is its preference for early relatively high-rated comments in long threads. This is related to the echo-chamber problem on communities like HN, where uncontroversial highly-rated comments tend to garner more upvotes. The effect is that comments which got upvoted early tend to dominate long threads, and later comments (no matter how insightful) are relegated to the bottom. HN tries to address this issue a bit by putting new comments near the top for a brief period of time. It's a nice try, but isn't very effective. So, I knew that coming so late in to the discussion, my suggestion would probably be drowned out. Instead I chose to create a separate post, and have it compete with other posts rather than with 500+ comments in that giant thread. I don't think I did anything wrong. And some people do appreciate my suggestion, as evidenced by the upvotes. Still, in respect to your objection, I've decided to delete this article and post it as a comment in the original thread.