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Ask HN: Can't reply to comments?
I seem unable to reply to comments. Is it just me?
- andrewljohnson 17y agoMaybe not just you, but not me.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoI can even respond to myself.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoOver and over.
- allenbrunson 17y agothere are any number of reasons you might not be able to respond to a comment. if a submission gets killed, further comments on it are usually not allowed. as a thread gets more deeply nested, there is a delay before the reply link appears, which is to give people time to cool down before saying things they might regret. pg is constantly tinkering with the system, so there may be other reasons i'm not yet aware of. in other words, just be cool and observe. there's usually a good reason for most site behaviors, but it will be a lot more subtle than you're used to, and not spelled out as explicitly as you might have expected. that's pg's way.
- pg 17y agoYou can't reply to comments that are over 45 days old (replying to old comments was popular with spammers), and there is a delay before the reply link appears on deeply nested comments, in order to create drag on flamewars.