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18 Post author: Wei_Dai 05 October 2012 07:23AM

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Comment author: maia 05 October 2012 02:48:41PM 1 point [-]

This is likely the point of the rule: to discourage otherwise-high-quality comments that might inspire a wave of crappy ones.

Comment author: prase 07 October 2012 04:50:19PM 3 points [-]

The problem seemed to be that a crappy comment can sometimes inspire a wave of good comments.