Hacker News has a timeout for responding to nested comment threads. The idea is ...

		Locke1689 on May 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin exchange account of Coinpal shut down by P... Hacker News has a timeout for responding to nested comment threads. The idea is to prevent long and drawn-out reply bickering between two people. If you can't reply to one of your comment's children, calm down, take a breath, and wait 5-20 minutes.

Thanks for the explanation, had no idea. You really shouldn't get so angry tho.