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I wish this weren't FORCED on us, because there have been times when I'd like to simply reply to some benign thread where people are asking for information, and then get back to work.

The best solution would be to put a chatterous widget on HN so people can take such conversations off the thread. I'm still not sure why this can't be done or hasn't been done yet.

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By the time this feature has kicked in, you're usually going to increase total happiness (including your own) by deferring and --- most likely --- eventually discarding your reply.

Think of it not just as a way to dampen unproductive threads, but also as a way to redirect your energy to more productive threads elsewhere. They're not trying to shake you, they're trying to route you!

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