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Are we running out of threads? :-)

Threads are cheap and this came to my attention more strongly this way than if it had just been a comment.

Every piece of prose posted here is, in some way, a response to something.

I'm not sure it's "ego-stroking," strictly speaking. What's wrong with giving the author recognition?

(me = author) FWIW, I can totally understand how it could come across as ego stroking. In this particular case I wasn't trying to, but I have been guilty of it in my life. As for recognition, trust me - give it a week and no one will remember my article ever existed. I honestly just wanted to answer ian0's question thoughtfully, and made the best call I could think of.

Because this isn't just a response, but a piece of long-form content which stands well on its own. We generally use submissions for those.

Comments are a great venue for short-form replies, but not for multi-page analyses of an interesting question.

(I'm the author) My bad. No excuses.

I upvoted it. I'm glad you posted it.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

nroach does have a point. I made a judgement call, and can see both sides of if it was a good one.