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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by mintplant on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:13PM (#5365293)
Interesting. The "reply" link is hidden for some comments - but not others - such as this one, yet I am able to bypass it by modifying the "reply" URL. Is this something new, or simply something I hadn't noticed before?
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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by UnoriginalGuy on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:18PM (#5365330)
Just click "link" above the post and the reply box appears.
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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by mintplant on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:21PM (#5365349)
Right. Hm. I wonder why it does that.
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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by brudgers on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @07:14PM (#5365652)
To slow down deeply nested short responses because they tend to contribute little to the overall discussion.

This thread is an example of why the delay is implemented, and this comment is an example of low value comments.

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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by UnoriginalGuy on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:31PM (#5365411)
Save space. If it had to have a "reply" button after every reply in a large comment block it would not be able to fit very many comments on the page.

They really should scrap the reply link entirely and move it next to the "flag" button e.g. | reply

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Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt by mintplant on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @06:55PM (#5365550)
Mm, can't be that. If you highlight the area under the comment, there's a row of dashes ("-----") where the "reply" button should be. It takes up the same amount of space.
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