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Tbh, I see few dead comments these days.

• shagie 4y ago
  Try browsing through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=5 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=5 (or wherever the last page ends up) - though there are more than a few nestled in the comments themselves. And if you scroll to the bottom of even this, rather innocuous ask HN question, there's one at the bottom.
  • e12e 4y ago
    > And if you scroll to the bottom of even this, rather innocuous ask HN question, there's one at the bottom. I consider "one at the bottom" and "a handful out of 1300 comments" to be "few". How would you define (non zero) few?
    • shagie 4y ago
      My post was 3h prior to yours. The bottom is now on page 6 and 7 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=6 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=7 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463908&p=7 Or you could pull up a new thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474681 has one... and if there's anything web3, you can be sure to find at least one there - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33469978 The structure of HN works to de-empahisize such posts. The Algorithm of HN is anit engagement after a certain point (compare to being able to sort by controversial on Reddit). The thing is that flagged and dead posts are there, but they tend to be harder to find by design. In more "engaging" posts (pull up any hot web3 one) and there'll be some... or a post about any personality.
      • e12e 4y ago
        FWIW I did look at the "current" bottom of your link - I found a handful of dead out of 1300 comments. Did you see an order of magnitude different? Ed: again, I didn't say "none", I said "few".