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Playing devil's advocate for a second, I'm wondering whether HN's somewhat kludgy method of following someone's responses to your comments has the unexpected be
by msluyter 12y ago
Playing devil's advocate for a second, I'm wondering whether HN's somewhat kludgy method of following someone's responses to your comments has the unexpected benefit of allowing conversations to die a natural death. The dark side of non-dying conversations is never ending back-and-forth or flame wars that rage on longer than they might otherwise. I agree that HN isn't an ideal forum for conversation, but perhaps that's not such a bad thing?
- wuliwong 12y agoAnother person had a similar notion. I think it is interesting. I do believe there could be some UI built to keep the quality at the top but longer "discussions" accessible. The fact that I posted this and completely forgot and now I come back a couple days later and there are tons of comments which I missed is my counter argument. :p