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N.YC Feature Suggestion

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When looking at my "Threads", each of the comments has an "on:" uri that points to the actual site that was linked to. I keep clicking that to be taken to the N.YC page for that discussion thread, but it takes me to the actual site instead. As it stands, I don't see that being very useful. I keep trying to use it the way I do because I want to view other comments that might have popped up. I don't see much value in how it currently functions.

What thoughts do you have about that?

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I was thinking the same thing, so I changed it to work the way you suggest.

Thanks. This had been bugging me too.

On a related note, is there a reason only the most recent comments can be viewed for a user? Is there a way to access all your own comments?

It's probably meant to stop karma bombs, and reduce the karma advantage of having many more posts.

By karma bomb, do you mean downmodding all of a user's comments? If so, you can't downmod a comment after some period of time.

Either way.

I upmodded a couple of comments of yours because of a comment you made on the programming reddit. I think you would know which comment :) Consider it a positive karma bomb.

Speaking of karma, is there some sort of karma FAQ lying about that I've not seen yet? I mostly grok the system, I think, but I had one comment get viciously hammered. I thought the comment was fairly innocuous, but perhaps I transgressed some News.YC rule, policy, or etc. that I wasn't aware of?

I'd like to play by the rules, I'm just wondering if there's some sore of newb intro that maybe I missed when I signed up?

If it's this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120991 then the reason is not the comment so much as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. HN members are trying very hard to avoid becoming the next reddit... we want to keep the signal/noise ratio high. Since you were posting in (and thereby validating) a topic that many viewed as fluff, you sort of got crucified. That said, I didn't vote your comment down.

Then again, I could be overanalyzing the entire situation, and it could just be that a lot of this community prefers sex alone ;).

Okay, that makes sense. There is a LOT of noise on some of those news/link aggragator sites and I can definitely appreciate the urge to try and keep News.YC on a higher level.

Thanks for filling in a newbie. :-)

I think it's unnecessary for any comment to be modded below -1 or so, so I gave you some free karma points.

I'm also taking the "-1 is the floor" stance, so I modded you up too.

That seems sensible, I'll keep that in mind in the future, myself, to avoid unnecessary down-modding. Thanks.

Cool, thanks.

Seconded

Thirded, I always expected it to work that way.

Will you also consider adding an "on:" link to all other pages that let you view comments, such as /item and /x ?

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