It's easy enough to delete your comment if you see older ones after you've replied. With the amount of discussion around distributed system design on here, it's pretty egregious that we can't get the simplest transactional behavior right.
It’s not so simple. I get internet points for my comment, even if it is nearly the same as someone else. Furthermore, the “first” comment chronologically is not necessarily sorted first. Indeed, older comments are sorted below. It’s actually later comments which are more near the top when others read threads, thus they get more exposure and upvotes and stay up top.
In any case, I see no harm in any of this. Bits are cheap.
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It's easy enough to delete your comment if you see older ones after you've replied. With the amount of discussion around distributed system design on here, it's pretty egregious that we can't get the simplest transactional behavior right.
It’s not so simple. I get internet points for my comment, even if it is nearly the same as someone else. Furthermore, the “first” comment chronologically is not necessarily sorted first. Indeed, older comments are sorted below. It’s actually later comments which are more near the top when others read threads, thus they get more exposure and upvotes and stay up top.
In any case, I see no harm in any of this. Bits are cheap.
As I said, we are not doing it right.