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Ask HN: Why don't HN'rs respond to threads?

7 points by QuantumGood ↗ HN
There are a LOT of unanswered questions posed to commenters on HN. Why don't more HN readers click on the threads link to read what people are saying to them? If you don't, why not?

I know there have been discussions of having notifications, but more than most forums, commenters here are pretty smart about how to best engage online.

When there is a civil request for expansion on a comment, I nearly always find replies from parent commenters to be helpful and enlightening. But it's much more common that the original commenter never responds.

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tonetheman
I think it is hidden enough that I often do not know someone wrote anything that I needed to respond to. Maybe a UI change when something has changed on a thread I talked on so I would know when to look?

Just my thoughts, others might feel differently.

Kaze404
I started using the site recently and was wondering why no one responded to my comments. Then I realized the site just doesn't tell me
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