Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked?

Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by code_duck on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:48AM (#19718465)

I feel like there are more brief and superfluous comments than there are used to be, but just as many or more lengthy and substantial comments.

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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by penagwin on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:58AM (#19719951)

Your comment gave me an interesting idea. What would happen if we imposed a minimum char-limit for say, hacker news comments? On one hand I'd expect more descriptive responses, fewer comments that are a short "Your wrong but I won't tell you why", etc. Comments just spamming letters would be fairly easy to detect.

On the other hand what would this minimum char/word length be? Even your comment is fairly short, but it's descriptive and fully communicates your point...

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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by compiler-guy on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:31PM (#19721439)

Then you end up with comments like you find on leasehackr.com, which has a twenty character minimum: “Agreed. 202020202020”

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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by code_duck on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:05PM (#19725011)

I believe there is a minimum character length under which comments are printed in a smaller font. I’m sure the mods have some insight into this.

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