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> EDIT/Responses: Your responses deserve their own comments, and by posting in this way, you circumvent the voting mechanism of other HN readers.
by aspenmayer 1y ago
> EDIT/Responses:
Your responses deserve their own comments, and by posting in this way, you circumvent the voting mechanism of other HN readers.
- bell-cot 1y agoThank you(?) - but one response amounted to "oops, add /s", and the other to "a bigger picture looks appropriate for this topic". And from how my comments are usually voted here, I suspect that few other HN readers want to see more of 'em.
- aspenmayer 1y ago> And from how my comments are usually voted here, I suspect that few other HN readers want to see more of 'em. It just feels uncouth or unseemly to reply in the original post as an edit, and it’s unfair to the person you’re replying to, as they may not know you replied, because you didn’t, technically. It feels manipulative and like you are avoiding downvotes that would otherwise arrive when you comment on how your comments are voted on. This feels like thwarting the will of users and subverting the will of the users as expressed through their responses. It’s hard to even have a conversation when you edit/reply, so it’s not really promoting conversation like the guidelines encourage us all to do. And this is as someone who usually agrees with you and your comments!