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by trust_bt_verify 437 days ago
Seems like an odd choice to move some but not all comments between posts like this. Especially when the only ones moved seem to be conservative talking points. This one even discusses a title that doesn’t exist on this article?
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> Seems like an odd choice to move some but not all comments between posts like this

The idea is to move good, substantive comments that have something to contribute to the new thread, and to leave the ones that don't fit that description and are bound by the context of the previous article.

I'm not saying I made all the calls perfectly about which ones to move and which ones to leave, but that's the idea at least! If there are cases I missed, I'd be happy to take a look.

> Especially when the only ones moved seem to be conservative talking points.

You can't jump to conclusions like that from such a paltry handful of datapoints. I say "you can't", but of course you can, because everyone does! But it's not reliable to do so:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> This one even discusses a title that doesn’t exist on this article?

Yes, that's why I replied—to make the context switch explicit because otherwise the comment wouldn't make sense.