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> HN itself uses the terminology "comment" for top-level messages and "reply" for sub-level messages Does it? I can't see any distinction in https://news.ycom
by yjftsjthsd-h 5mo ago
> HN itself uses the terminology "comment" for top-level messages and "reply" for sub-level messages
Does it? I can't see any distinction in
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
or https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Rereading your comment now with this in mind, I can make out the distinction, but I don't think you made it clearly.
- electroly 5mo agoThe submit button in the post box says "add comment" vs. "reply" depending on what kind of message you're posting, and the link under comments says "reply" while articles don't have that link. I called it the "top-level descriptive comment on their Show HN post" because I agree just "comment" vs. "reply" alone could be confusing. What's a better way to describe the comment that an author posts with their Show HN to begin the discussion vs. replies that are made in response to specific comments? I genuinely don't know how many more terms I could have loaded onto that phrase to make it clear which post I was talking about. That wasn't supposed to be a confusing part of my post.