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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by jandrese on Sunday December 15, 2019 @05:08PM (#21799325)
How is a poster supposed to go back to the 5 year old thread starting comment and change it to note that the post is out of date?

Good forum software makes it less of a sin, but that's pretty rare on the Internet. This isn't the Usenet where people's clients could be fully featured on every topic.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by BlueTemplar on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:12AM (#21803535)
Usenet would have it worse, because there you can choose your software yourself (and pick one without that feature)?

BTW, I prefer decentralized protocols like Usenet, there are plenty of features that would be unthinkable to leave out of "modern" clients, this could be one of them !

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