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Re:Post your HN tricks. by jacquesm on Monday August 17, 2009 @05:56AM (#767754)
To bypass the anti flame-war controls click 'link' when the 'reply' link isn't visible yet.
Re:Post your HN tricks. by Pistos2 on Monday August 17, 2009 @10:00AM (#768116)
Noob question: What anti flame-war controls?
Re:Post your HN tricks. by tdavis on Monday August 17, 2009 @10:32AM (#768180)
The idea was to make it impossible to reply quickly to deeply-nested threads in order to let the flames settle (the assumption being that deeply-nested threads are generally just flame wars). It appears it was only made less convenient.