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Ask HN: No reply link as you get further into comments causes silly editing.
This seems to be a fairly recent feature, but it just doesn't seem the right way to go about things to me. Fairly irritating.
I was just reading the comments here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830939
Interesting discussions, but then you have people editing their previous comment because they can't reply yet.
>> EDIT: good points in reply to this... (I can't reply any deeper in the thread, so I'll just acknowledge it here)
Is there a description somewhere of the problem this solves and why it's needed? Hacker news seemed to function pretty well when you could reply to whatever you wanted whenever you wanted to.
- mbrubeck 17y agoThe reply link does appear eventually; there's just a delay that gets longer as the nesting gets deeper. It's supposed to slow down rapid back-and-forth threads that are usually between just two or a few people, often are arguments, and occasionally "take over" posts by generating dozens of comments.
- byoung2 17y agoIs there a description somewhere of the problem this solves and why it's needed? http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
- axod 17y agoAh thanks. I think it needs tweaking personally. Maybe wait until 5 levels deep or something.
- pg 17y agoHow often have you seen this? I find it's extremely rare.