[WaterSponge]

The merger of these threads really takes away the scope of the announcements made and the different discussions being had. The editorializing and changing of URL really alters the environment for conversation in a way that's not healthy and hurts the scope of these things. Then the second highest comment on the thread becomes about the design layout on the page.

So be it if Microsoft/Apple/Google/Android/Amazon/Uber is on the front page multiple times...

[dang]

I'm not going to claim we execute it correctly every time but the general approach seems fair to me: have a distinct thread on each distinct major story.

It's true that merging threads sometimes eliminates some context (hopefully not too much) but duplicate or near-duplicate threads on the front page are arguably worse. If there were a way of pleasing everybody we would jump at it. Unfortunately, people disagree about this.