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HN comments are locked to further replies after 2 weeks. That doesn't exactly help.

Sometimes, figuring out what considered discourse looks like in a certain area is an unbounded process.

Sometimes it hinges on drive-by enlightenment by someone who happens to have exactly the right resource and a willingness to necropost it.

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Yeah, I appreciate HN not having a notification system for replies unlike Reddit, but even so there's some pressure to reply quickly more than deeply. I'd be very interested in seeing a discussion forum that's intentionally much slower, e.g., having replies only show up at the next hour or half-hour.

One thing you'd want to be careful about is letting people say "This is obviously wrong" and having something to that effect show up quickly, so you don't waste a bunch of people's time replying with the same thing.

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