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Why are editorial comments something you want to discourage? I'm not for or against the idea really but I have always wondered what the reasoning is.
by jmackinn 18y ago
Why are editorial comments something you want to discourage? I'm not for or against the idea really but I have always wondered what the reasoning is.
- pg 18y agoWhat I want to avoid is editorial titles. The idea is roughly that comments are individual property, because people can make as many of them as they want, but link titles are common property in that everyone has to share one (except to the extent duplicate detection fails). If links worked in "Ask HN" text, people would use such submissions as a way to get de facto extra long link titles. I know because they used to, and they did.