> I'm pretty sure that the HN community likes to read thoughtful, thoroughly > researched comments that are somewhat longer than one-liners. Could not agree

> I'm pretty sure that the HN community likes to read thoughtful, thoroughly > researched comments that are somewhat longer than one-liners. Could not agree more and this is a great side effect of the time out. It gives the commenter yet another reason to compose their comment in a real editor. Personally I find the comment text box is too small to do a decent job of assessing and editing my comment. A real editor also makes it easy to format the above blockquote[^1] or to insert[^2] logical and consistent footnotes.[^3] [^1]: http://www.nicemice.net/par/ http://www.nicemice.net/par/ [^2]: http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/ [^3]: I just wish markdown-mode would renumber the footnotes if I go back and insert a new footnote. As it is I have to pipe the output through pandoc