@Mr.Gawn: It seems like it'd be pretty easy to make a script such that, when a user moused over the @user reply, it would show a pop-up of the comment that it references. That way, you can read it (ex. you don't recall the original comment that it refers to), and then mouse out to get rid of it.

@kilodelta6: No? Just whipped something up last night.

@relyk5: It wouldn't be difficult to provide the actual content of the comment being replied to in a popup when mousing over the @user link.

@1112: Who cares what gawker thinks? Greasemonkey is your friend.

@relyk5: Take a pot of greasemonkey. Throw in some CSS and jquery. Shake.

So, who wants properly nested comments and replies? (not quite finished yet.)

@Chrissy Wolcott: I'm working on a greasemonkey script to do something similar. It would be easy for me to incorporate that.

This is much worse than it was before. Bad Google. Bad Google.

@BlackSmokeDMax: Exactly. If I know you, I'll let you know. If I don't know you, it gets treated as spam.

@JasonBarone: Thanks for the discussion. And, I understand your point. It's just different. It would be nice if there was a limited ability for every commenter to promote a comment, so that good comments got promoted more often. (like a "hot comment") It could almost be as simple as a rule that promotes a comment if…

@tinmanjim: People just want to be heard, or speak to hear their heads rattle. I'm not sure which.

@ptyork: A response from a starred commenter automatically promotes the comment. Starred commenters also have the ability to promote a comment without responding. Starred commenters can also approve comments, and comment accounts. The tradeoff is that they also get to see the unapproved comments, which are quite often…

@JasonBarone: Group think isn't always better. Digg is a perfect example of that. Unpopular opinions are suppressed to the point that the signal level reaches zero.

@warped2049: The responsibility for crediting those posts lies in the hands of the users. Currently it's the starred commenters. Now, perhaps there could be some discussion of starred commenters shirking their limited responsibilities as moderators. But, the primary goal in having such a system is to increase the…

@ptyork: Well, it used to be that even becoming an approved commenter was the equivalent of getting a star these days. Now, it's much easier to become a commenter.

@ibenny: Yes. Yes, it is. I admit it, I'm an OS whore. I've even got a Be box sitting around here somewhere. But, I am primarily a Linux user.

@zorro99: I agree. I can't remember the last time I had a computer that wasn't maxed out on RAM.

@SophT: Your PC133 example versus DDR3 is such a craptastic example. Currently, DDR3, obviously. But, 10 years ago, PC133. Now, if that had been DDR2 for DDR3, it's a completely different ballgame. High end DDR2 is often faster than DDR3. Gimme 4GB of high end DDR2.

@Marand: More like 3a. ;)

@Bawb - The One, The Only, The Builder: If you're going to go the upgrade method, the rule is: