[tomhow]

That isn't always a simple, reliable way of finding the historical submissions of the article. Sometimes it's on a domain that has had many other submissions. Sometimes the domain has changed or the content appears in different forms in different places.

It's a longstanding convention to do this, and the audience appreciates it. Not sure why anyone would take issue with it.

[hyperhello]

It does appear a bit mechanical, like something the system would do. Maybe a submission should always automatically find all previous discussions as an automatic comment.