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[noncoml]

Yes..?

[andrewflnr → noncoml]

Really? Go into the next HN thread and see how many deeply nested comments you can make sense of by looking only at their parent.

[noncoml → andrewflnr]

You are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent

[andrewflnr → noncoml]

Correct. Why is that? Apply this logic to the current comment chain, starting from OP.

[lukan → noncoml]

Yeah, you both seem to agree. The larger context matters.

[andrewflnr → lukan]

Me:

> And everything is always in exactly one easily defined context, right? So for a comment reply we already know the full context just by looking at its immediate parent. That's how nested replies work, right?

noncoml:

> Yes..?

But somehow, also noncoml:

> You are not doing HN right if you are only reading the parent

I give up.