Discuss link broken?

2 points by xiaomei 14 years ago | 3 comments

The discuss link in the story below is inactive. Is this a feature?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3585561

wmf 14 years ago |

Sigh. You can't add new comments to old threads (presumably this prevents various kinds of attacks).

xiaomei 14 years ago | |

This is what I thought. I'm surprised Squadmail (link in opening post) has posted their product more than once on HN and has gotten nearly no comments or upvotes.

debacle 14 years ago | |

It also prevents thread zombifying, which is important.