Comment by lysace
Funny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment.
Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.
Funny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment.
Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.
I think it's a bad design. There should be a window of a few minutes to override it.
I made a rash comment (not a very bad one, but I introduced politics for no reason), very quickly regretted it, but you were faster.
Now many people will read this idiotic exchange instead of doing something more productive.
It is unfortunate sometimes. Probably a net gain to the signal-to-noise ratio, though?