Question on “hidden” features: Sometimes sub-level comments (not even particularly deep) don’t have a ‘reply’ button - is this turned off for particularly controversial (in voting) comments?
> Hacker News encourages a single discussion on a given story. All others are marked as a [dupe] and will be killed[...]
The addition to this is that after a while this isn’t enforced - which is why you’ll see the same articles coming up reasonably regularly.
I've noticed the missing reply button; my impression is that it won't appear right away after a post is submitted, which is probably intended to reduce flamewars.
It's still possible to reply directly, but you have to click the permalink above the specific comment (the one with the time in it - "X minutes ago") before the reply button/box are visible.
> Hacker News encourages a single discussion on a given story. All others are marked as a [dupe] and will be killed[...]
The addition to this is that after a while this isn’t enforced - which is why you’ll see the same articles coming up reasonably regularly.