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For completeness, it appears HN prevents you from replying to a post until it's been there for something like 15 minutes. I mistakenly interpreted that as a thr
by sfblah 4y ago
For completeness, it appears HN prevents you from replying to a post until it's been there for something like 15 minutes. I mistakenly interpreted that as a thread limit.
Responding to your message below. It is the case, as you can see in this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/q0VjGgJ https://imgur.com/a/q0VjGgJ
Note the lack of a reply button. You must be a real hoot in person.
- tptacek 4y agoThat is also not the case.
- runarberg 4y agoI think this is a feature to prevent flame wars from spiraling out of control. The reply button is hidden for the first n-minutes on long threads. A thread should ideally get more interesting as it gets longer, if a reply has to be composed immediately, it is probably a sign it is not gonna be interesting, if it can’t wait n-minutes, it is probably a sign it is not gonna be interesting. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hidden-reply-links https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hidden...
- sfblah 4y agoIt's a completely reasonable feature. I was just reacting to this dude whose goal appears just to be to contradict anything I said. I provided a screenshot. My experience was real and valid (like my experience of having a genetically high IQ, coincidentally).
- tptacek 4y agoYou just responded to somebody who explained to you that your theory of HN having a time limit feature that prevented you from writing comments was trivially refuted. Your experience of not knowing how to respond to a comment inside a time window was valid, but your theory of what was actually happening was false.