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Maybe I'm doing something wrong but HN doesn't notify me when someone responds or something like other communication platforms do. If and when someone responds to a question on here I assume they are not ever going to check it again. I know I almost never do. The only exception is if there's sort of a conversation going on with responses every few minutes. Once it's been a few hours, or god forbid the next day, I'm highly unlikely to go back.

Also, if it's a 1on1 discussion with someone via e-mail, skype, or some form of private message, I'll almost always say thank you. But if I put a question up on an open forum and one or more persons happen to respond I tend not to say thanks. I dunno why, it just doesn't seem to be common internet etiquette to do so. A quick google search on a couple big name technical help question sites shows that it's not very common for people to say thanks for open ended questions to the community.




One of the handful of pinned tabs in my browser is my HN Threads page. I don't comment that much so the first page of that section can go back 4-5 days. I usually refresh that a couple times a day (when I have recently posted) just to make sure I don't miss a reply to one of my comments. I don't go back further than page 1 so if you reply to a few days later I am likely to miss that. But since HN moves in hours not days, I don't really see that as a problem. If you are not actively looking at responses to your comments then you don't seem very interested in discussion.


There's a 'comments' link in your profile. I check it religiously, there are very often interesting responses.

Say thanks by upvoting.


Click the 'threads' link at the top once in a while. It adds a little latency, but I kind of appreciate the fact that it slows down the conversation a bit...



That's what I use, but I am generally only going to check responses on the most recently couple of posts. And I'm afraid the 2nd page suffers the same fate as Google results that are beyond the first page... never getting seen.


I always use the 'threads' button in the menu bar, good enough for me.




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