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Re:New Comment Features by unalone on Thursday February 05, 2009 @01:56AM (#467286)
But has he ever asked that in a case where it wasn't a heated argument? I got asked to stop because a guy was swearing and I was calling him pathetic, but that was because we were generating a flamefest. Do people get told off just for talking at length?
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Re:New Comment Features by xenophanes on Thursday February 05, 2009 @02:30AM (#467337)
"Would you please stop filling up comment threads with this kind of thing?" -- pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=138275

What he was replying to is deleted. But it doesn't matter what it was. pg objected to "filling up comment threads". I didn't know they could get full...

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Re:New Comment Features by unalone on Thursday February 05, 2009 @02:56AM (#467360)
It looks to me like DarrenStuart was being overtly melodramatic and got asked to stop. "Filling up" refers to visual space as well; people looking for conversation would get diverted by nonsense like that. You're not making the best case: I'd rather PG try and stop stuff like that and encourage more rational discourse.
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Re:New Comment Features by xenophanes on Thursday February 05, 2009 @03:00AM (#467364)
If you think he should do it, fine, but he still did it...

You can't maintain he's fully supportive of long threads, and also wants to avoid noise and clutter.

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