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A reply is always in the context of the thing that is being replied on. It’s how replies work… If there is an article about berries and you say you love bluebe
by noncoml 2y ago
A reply is always in the context of the thing that is being replied on. It’s how replies work…
If there is an article about berries and you say you love blueberries and I reply saying “I hate them”, it in the context of blueberries. It doesn’t mean I hate all berries. And I shouldn’t have to clarify that, since I’m replying to a comment about blueberries.
How else could this work?
- andrewflnr 2y agoAnd everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right?
- noncoml 2y agoYes..?
- andrewflnr 2y agoReally? Go into the next HN thread and see how many deeply nested comments you can make sense of by looking only at their parent.
- noncoml 2y agoYou are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent
- lukan 2y agoYeah, you both seem to agree. The larger context matters.
- andrewflnr 2y agoMe: > And everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right? noncoml: > Yes..? But somehow, also noncoml: > You are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent I give up.
- andrewflnr 2y agoCorrect. Why is that? Apply this logic to the current comment chain, starting from OP.