But multiple authors can have a different take on the same event. I don't want a 10-page thread with multiple links spread throughout. It's nothing to do with karma, which I could give a rat's ass about. In this case, I ignored the first story when I saw sun.com as the URL because I figured it was a bullshit press release, but read the one that said nytimes.com even though it turned out to be not much better. Over the next few months additional stories are likely to revisit the same topic with additional analysis. Lumping them all into the same thread would mean we would need to re-scan the discussion to figure out which comments we have read and which ones we haven't. By keeping the discussions fragmented we avoid that problem.