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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by JoshTriplett on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:07AM (#14171607)
> Reddit threads are automatically archived after six months, at which point no new comments can be added to them.

Some people intentionally do this to the comments on their old posts, to avoid having to monitor them for spam and abuse.

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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by walterbell on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:04AM (#14171696)
That also eliminates monitoring them for valuable contributions, especially on evergreen content.
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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by a_t48 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:58AM (#14177240)
You can always make a new thread, treating reddit as a normal forum.
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Re:Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments by gotofritz on Sunday April 23, 2017 @10:41AM (#14178325)
Too much work
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