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Because conversations have lifespans. If I want to see said answer I can visit my profile and check. But I don't want the website constantly pestering me "someo

• Lvl999Noob 5y ago
  Why not make subscribing to a thread manual? You can subscribe to a thread of you think it is important. The subscription will last for 3-4 days or maybe a week. Someone will probably make a client that automatically subscribes you to your comments. But that will probably be a vanishingly small number of users. And flame wars would require both sides of the war to have their subscription on. The notifications themselves can be delayed too, so you can either manually follow it to stay fully up to date or deal with a few minutes or hours of delays. Basically too inconvenient for a troll, but usable for most probably productive purposes.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Some conversations have long lifespans. Philosophers have been answering, or at least asking, the same questions for centuries and millennia. Technical and scientific questions can span years or decades. Political and social ones, decades and centuries. No, it's not necessary to drag all of past discourse into each individual conversation. But neither is it reasonable to demand that all discussions die within a few hours, or a day at the outside, on the most perfect text-based global communications platform ever developed.