[dthunt]

This in reply to the 'essentially piracy' comment below, which for some reason I cannot reply to (too much nesting?)

What's next? Am I stealing music if I put it in a CD player and it makes a 25ms buffer copy while I'm playing?

Fair Use is an important principle. We can't structure our laws to work against Fair Use, or dig ourselves into the absolutely braindead position that exercising your fair use rights of software, music, etc - should be regarded as piracy.

To do that is to be a total shithead.

[icebraining]

Regarding your first line, the link only appears after a delay, that increases based on how nested the thread already is. It's a feature that is supposed to prevent flamewars by forcing people to "cool off" before replying.

In practice it seems to lead to this, which is worse since it breaks the flow without solving the issue.

[deno]

Simple “reply (charging…)” would fix that. Javascript counter would be even better but let’s not hope for miracles :)