> I thought I replied to this post, but I guess not and my reply ended up being a top-level reply, which is just as well.
Sorry for the confusion. We detach comments that are replies to the top comment but don't respond to anything specific that that comment said. This is standard moderation. Sometimes we post that we did this (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but not always.
We do this because users often post replies to the top comment on a page that aren't really replies. Sometimes they do that because they want to get their comment higher on the page (so-called topjacking). Of course that's not always the case.
Both of your posts are fine (except for the fact that they duplicate one another) but they are replies to the article, not to anything that the top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25116881) specifically says. Indeed your sentence "I will just mention my main two quibbles to this otherwise excellent post and others like it so that other people who embark on introductory posts to Godel's results don't fall into the same trap." makes it quite clear that your reply is to the article, not xyzzyz's comment. That's great! But the appropriate level for such a comment is the top level of the thread.
Sorry for the confusion. We detach comments that are replies to the top comment but don't respond to anything specific that that comment said. This is standard moderation. Sometimes we post that we did this (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but not always.
We do this because users often post replies to the top comment on a page that aren't really replies. Sometimes they do that because they want to get their comment higher on the page (so-called topjacking). Of course that's not always the case.
Both of your posts are fine (except for the fact that they duplicate one another) but they are replies to the article, not to anything that the top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25116881) specifically says. Indeed your sentence "I will just mention my main two quibbles to this otherwise excellent post and others like it so that other people who embark on introductory posts to Godel's results don't fall into the same trap." makes it quite clear that your reply is to the article, not xyzzyz's comment. That's great! But the appropriate level for such a comment is the top level of the thread.
I've therefore done the same again and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25116881.