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Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user". For those with only a single post, these users will have dots. For those with multiple posts, only the lat
by jn6118 6y ago
Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user".
For those with only a single post, these users will have dots.
For those with multiple posts, only the latest ones retain the dot.
- runald 6y agoThis one will not have a dot.
- jaifraic 6y agoI'm just gonna test this here.
- jaifraic 6y agoThis comment should have a dot. The above one not.
- willcipriano 6y agoDot comment?
- runald 6y agoThis one will have a dot. Edit: Seems to be true, but porpoise's comments is a clear counterexample.
- dottershmidt 6y agoIf you are to delete your last comment, the preceding comment will not reacquire its dot.
- Ellipsis753 6y agoThis is my most recent message. Does it have a dot?
- perryprog 6y agoSeconded; this can be seen on Hemmert's last two comments (both of which are on this post): https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hemmert https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=hemmert
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- throwablePie 6y agoI think you are correct. That's something I failed to notice when I referenced your post.
- nkurz 6y agoI think this is right, where "most recent post" is chosen from both comments and submissions. Looking at top of the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest page illustrates this pattern. Almost every timestamp there ends with a dot, except for the cases where the submitter commented on their own submission, in which case that comment has the dot. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198319.