My point is that a brand new user might not know they need to manually check for replies. They’re much less likely to know about some third party utility for monitoring them
That’s a feature, not a bug. Real time Reddit-style reply notifications encourage flamewars, or at least less thoughtful comments. I’ve even found myself falling into that trap now that I get notifications from HNReplies.
Hm thanks for the meta-discussion. I thought I was missing a "reply notification" setting somewhere and was meaning to go search for enabling it one day.
