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.
Re:New Comment Features
by xenophanes on Thursday February 05, 2009 @03:00AM
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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.
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...