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“This ^” style comments work very poorly on a site that doesn't maintain temporal ordering of comments.


I’ve only ever seen “this ^” refer to the parent comment, not the one directly above it as you mention. So as long as the comment hierarchy is maintained (which it is on HN) then the reference is clear




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