1) Removing "by" at the start of each comment stops me from trivially finding every other comment by the same poster in a given thread. Searching for just the name adds noise to the results. Usually not a lot, but I find it annoying.
2) Removing comment scores from our thread feeds makes it much more difficult to skim through all the things a given user has said recently looking for gems. Instead of a nice pre-filter (skim for posts exceeding some minimum score) you have to read every comment, no matter how inane.
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Two ways the changes have impacted my browsing:
1) Removing "by" at the start of each comment stops me from trivially finding every other comment by the same poster in a given thread. Searching for just the name adds noise to the results. Usually not a lot, but I find it annoying.
2) Removing comment scores from our thread feeds makes it much more difficult to skim through all the things a given user has said recently looking for gems. Instead of a nice pre-filter (skim for posts exceeding some minimum score) you have to read every comment, no matter how inane.