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Actually, it's time-related and everyone sees it. Deeper comment threads have a timer that prevents comments for several minutes. It's to give people arguing

by Dove 14y ago

Actually, it's time-related and everyone sees it. Deeper comment threads have a timer that prevents comments for several minutes. It's to give people arguing with each other time to cool off.

agumonkey 14y ago
Are those rules written somewhere ? I like the tree pruning effect of this one
- Dove 14y ago
  http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html has some of them, but not nearly all of them.