{"id":42732355,"user":"lysace","time":1737070695,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

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Can we not do this on HN, please?","comments":[{"id":42732449,"user":"lysace","time":1737071404,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Funny HN design detail: Once a comment has been added to a comment, the original commenter can't delete it's comment.

Sometimes this is counterproductive to the goal of HN.","comments":[{"id":42732489,"user":"mh-","time":1737071712,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

It is unfortunate sometimes. Probably a net gain to the signal-to-noise ratio, though?","comments":[{"id":42732521,"user":"lysace","time":1737071934,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I think it's a bad design. There should be a window of a few minutes to override it.

I made a rash comment (not a very bad one, but I introduced politics for no reason), very quickly regretted it, but you were faster.

Now many people will read this idiotic exchange instead of doing something more productive.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=42732521"}],"comments_count":1,"level":2,"url":"item?id=42732489"}],"comments_count":2,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42732449"},{"id":42732405,"time":1737071042,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"[deleted]","deleted":true,"comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42732405"}],"comments_count":4,"level":0,"url":"item?id=42732378"},{"id":42732398,"user":"s1artibartfast","time":1737071012,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

upvoted and flagged.","comments":[{"id":42732681,"time":1737073473,"time_ago":"3 months ago","type":"comment","content":"[deleted]","deleted":true,"comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":1,"url":"item?id=42732681"}],"comments_count":1,"level":0,"url":"item?id=42732398"}],"comments_count":7,"url":"item?id=42732355"}

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