EDIT: To those who downvote me, that's your privilege, and I have no complaints. To explain, I do it to try to prevent identical or nearly identical comments being spread over several submissions. As a programmer/hacker, I prefer the principle of DRY - don't repeat yourself - and having comments on the same item in several places just leads to unnecessary duplication and just seems messy.
I wish there were better duplicate detection, or a way of merging the comments from multiple items, but there isn't. This is one way I try to add value to HN - to save time by highlighting these duplications.
If you genuinely think this is damaging behavior then I'd be interested to hear why.
No comments there, though.
Exactly the same report also available here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111707
EDIT: To those who downvote me, that's your privilege, and I have no complaints. To explain, I do it to try to prevent identical or nearly identical comments being spread over several submissions. As a programmer/hacker, I prefer the principle of DRY - don't repeat yourself - and having comments on the same item in several places just leads to unnecessary duplication and just seems messy.
I wish there were better duplicate detection, or a way of merging the comments from multiple items, but there isn't. This is one way I try to add value to HN - to save time by highlighting these duplications.
If you genuinely think this is damaging behavior then I'd be interested to hear why.