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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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