[regehr]

Replying to myself because depth limit.

Let me try to think of a good way to update the post to capture this better...

[haberman]

There isn't actually a depth limit (or if there is we haven't hit it yet :). HackerNews just hides the "reply" link for 5 minutes or so to cool down flamewars.

You can work around this by clicking on the link for the post itself (ie. "3 minutes ago") which allows you to reply immediately.