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by supern0va 24 days ago
>Due to the nature of this format not even the original author checks old comments and absolutely no chance any new conversation sparks out of it.

Sometimes I wonder if the format actually helps. I suspect that when you know you can pretend you didn't see a reply to your comment, you feel less likely to need to defend yourself when you realize you might be wrong. You can just close the tab and, since there was no notification, just move on without the ego hit.