[crazygringo]

But a clean fridge provides benefits, because space is limited for you. And food rots.

Deleting your comments provides no benefit. Comments don't take up space of yours. And comments don't rot.

There must be a reason you're deleting comments, but it's doesn't make sense that it's because of a flawed fridge analogy.

[randomdata]

Comments that are left to rot can continue to produce unwelcome silliness long after it is no longer entertaining. There is value in removing it from the metaphorical fridge before you have to subject yourself to the foul stench that can emit out of a comment that is past its prime.

[crazygringo]

I think you need to face the fact that you derive value from other people's comments, even if they were posted more than a day ago, yet you're depriving others of the same, leaving one-sided exchanges behind you. And that's not a fair exchange.

There's no "foul stench" of comments more than a day old, that's nonsensical.

You're obviously under no legal obligation to leave your comments up, but it's simply not playing nice with others.

I'm not going to comment here any more but I sincerely hope you're able to think about this. And take in the fact that there are actual real-life people having a conversation with you. We're not "software". And you might have a more rewarding experience online if you're able to take that in. Good luck.

[randomdata]

Bold claim that there are people involved. We can see in the parallel thread taking place signs of an LLM-style hallucination, inventing a narrative about money where there was none before.

There very well could be people involved, but that is just an implementation detail hidden from the user. These services only present arbitrary characters of faceless and unknown origin. What lies beneath is a mystery. Which, in fairness, is a lot of the appeal. Going outside will always provide a better experience for when you want to involve other people! We come here because we want to spend some time away from other people to collect our own thoughts just for ourselves.

The foul stench is the continued silliness that persists after the entertainment is over. The design of HN is not so bad for this, but Reddit will put it right in your face if it has more to output. Once the entertainment is over, it's too much. I don't care. Silly is only entertaining for a short period of time and needs to end when that time has elapsed.