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> makes you keep checking and re-checking for more obsessively.

Yet I do this more on HN than any other site since I don't know if someone's responded to me.

Noprocrast was... helpful, I guess, but I found myself racing to make poor quality responses sometimes, or HN was constantly locked out whenever I wanted to take a short break, instead of being able to take the time to respond with a thoughtful answer.

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Responses aren't necessarily "to you"

If you are going to post a comment that does nothing more than respond to the previous person, you are doing a disservice by forcing thousands of people to read text that is likely irrelevant or unhelpful to them.

The fact that this site is designed to prevent this behavior is one of its stronger points IMHO

You've completely missed the point of why I want response notifications.

I get where you're coming from, but unless you're the only expert in your field, I think it's better to have group discussions.

Response notifications will primarily be used by people to dominate the chat, and your use case doesn't negate that.

I think you're accusing me a of a lot of personality traits I do not possess. Why am I not allowed to respond to people if I so choose? There isn't a limited amount of allowed responses.

you're allowed to respond to whomever you can. the explicit design goal is to avoid comments that are noise on a web forum, even if they're expected in normal conversation. reply comments like "thanks for the link!" (whether you do that or not) are seen to not add that much value, and so are discouraged

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