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Yeah, for some reason, HN disallows a top-level comment on a submitted link (but you can do a top-level comment on a stand-alone/no-link post). I always found
by alistairSH 5mo ago
Yeah, for some reason, HN disallows a top-level comment on a submitted link (but you can do a top-level comment on a stand-alone/no-link post). I always found that odd - as a submitter, I generally want to provide some commentary on what I found something interesting.
- pavon 5mo agoWorse, their submission form looks like you can provide top-text, and indeed that same form field is used as top-text for Show HN, but for a normal submission it puts that text in a normal comment which almost always reads weirdly in that context.
- stavros 5mo agoI don't think it does? Eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038271
- alistairSH 5mo agoHuh, something must have changed. At one time, if you entered a URL and title, you could not enter a comment. And of course I submitted a junk test to see what it does today but there's no "delete" function for submissions. Le Sigh.
- stavros 5mo agoYeah I think this was changed recently, a few months ago I remember the text being a comment.
- stavros 5mo agoI don't think it does though, I've done it on a few submissions, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038271