[alexandercrohde]

I have no idea what you're saying.

You're arguing that because it is simply designed it's not brutalist? The whole definition of brutalism is minimal distraction/complexity.

The least brutalist thing you could do would be notifications popping up in the lower right every time somebody responds to you, with a picture, their karma, etc.

Deleting comments again, would be anti-brutalist.

Aside - When I think of the most successful public forum for non-stupid discussion on the internet I think HN (unless you count wikipedia). We should ask ourselves what about this site (or was it the core audience) managed to create the impossible -- intelligent discussions on the internet.