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There's little in what you say that I can disagree with. In fact, most of the difficulties were obvious to me before my post but I concentrated my comments on t
by hilbert42 5y ago
There's little in what you say that I can disagree with. In fact, most of the difficulties were obvious to me before my post but I concentrated my comments on the higher issues rather than being concerned with the more mundane practical problems that you've rightly mentioned.
As I see it, there are several levels to dealing with the 'messy' posts issue (topics where there are large numbers of replies). In essence, these 'levels' are more different classes of problem and they require different (more specific) solutions.
First, there's the 'uncompleted reply' problem. This where one intends to reply and for various reasons the poster is unable to do so. Reasons may include the cutoff
- hilbert42 5y agoAs happenstance would have it, somehow I accidentally posted this part of my next post whilst still editing it. The fact that I cannot remove this error because of inane web policies illustrates the arcane nature of most forum software. (note: HN is not alone in this regard, it's typical of most.) The relevant issue here is that the time of this post there is no other post in reply to this error and thus I ought to be able to remove it without disturbing any other part of the forum per se — ah but alas it's not possible as I've already exceeded some arbitrary time limit even though it has absolutely no relevance in this instance. My full post further amplifies my reasons.