Alright. I was having a 'people are wrong on the internet' moment.
What does get my goat though is that a comment can spin off a hundred replies and the initial comment is invisible. I've seen it happen a few times now to other people. It is controversy/mystery and then a back and forth without context and I find myself highlighting the initial comments to discover what actually happened.
It even happens to the OP's initial statement! Blank and a slew of comments. That might be the flamewar detector in action though.
That seems like a flaw in the algorithm. If the thread is worth reading instead of a flamewar then surely the initial comment ought to be (more likely to be) visible for reading?
I get that the initial comment could be nonsensical and the offspring of it could be still useful but it seems weird since those replies wouldn't have happened without it. You've heard the saying that it is easier to get good information by saying something wrong on the Net and being corrected, rather than by requesting said information. Seems like the present algorithm goes against a 'Law of the Internet'.
