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> IMHO not much really needs to change, I think how reposts and such are handled right now is great. This is where I am at. The notion that HN posts die off re
by bob1029 4y ago
> IMHO not much really needs to change, I think how reposts and such are handled right now is great.
This is where I am at. The notion that HN posts die off relatively quickly (i.e. within ~48h) is potentially a very important part of what gives them the quality they have today.
If every post was eternal and duplicates were always closed, you'd wind up with effectively perma-stickied comments in these god threads that become the law for that topic until the end of time.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoExactly, it's a huge chore to keep those kind of mega threads up to date and relevant too. And you get a lot of bikeshedding on other topics with people complaing that this should be in the mega thread, etc.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoNot if you sort them upside down, newest first. Old comments increasingly pushed away to deeper pages, becoming an archive. You could have an AI to summarize the last N comments, giving an overview on the most recent opinion.