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I want to be notified when someone replies to one of my comments - not stories!

Just a message box that would appear on the page that someone replied to one of my comments.. and this message box should appear only when there are new replies... along with links to the specified comments!

What do you think? :)

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I think it's a bad idea. Threads basically "die" for me when they fall off the bottom of my "Comments" link --- or, at most, when they get one or two "More" clicks past that page.

This is helpful, because after a few days of participating in a thread, the quality of my responses degrades, and the number of people reading it declines.

I feel like time-limited discussions are part of the culture here.

(I'm aware of the irony. I just saw the timestamp.)

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