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Really? Go into the next HN thread and see how many deeply nested comments you can make sense of by looking only at their parent.
by andrewflnr 3y ago
Really? 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 3y agoYou are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent
- lukan 3y 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.