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Comments are how the community talks about posts. Here's what you need to know.

Posting a comment

The comment box under a post. Numbers match the steps below.
  1. Scroll to the Comments section under any post.
  2. Type your comment (12–220 characters).
  3. Hit Send.

You must be logged in to comment.

If nobody has commented on a new story yet, the comment box offers a first reader bonus of 20–40 XP for the first thoughtful comment (12 words or more). See Achievements & XP for how it works.

The 30-second cooldown

To keep spam down, you can post at most one comment per post every 30 seconds. The cooldown is per post — commenting on another post is always allowed immediately.

Conversations are never throttled. If someone replies to you, the cooldown is skipped and you can respond right away.

Editing a comment

What you can do with a comment. Numbers match the steps below.
  • (1) You can edit your own comment within 2 minutes of posting it.
  • Click Edit next to your comment, change the text, and Save.
  • After 2 minutes the edit button disappears.

Deleting a comment

  • (2) Click the trash icon next to your own comment to delete it.

Linking posts in comments

You can reference another post safely:

A post reference becomes a clean link.
Check out /posts/42 — it's great!

Any /posts/{id} or /posts/{slug} reference renders as a clean clickable link automatically. External website links are not allowed — comments containing them may be flagged as spam and hidden.

What gets flagged as spam

The automatic spam filter hides comments that contain:

  • External links (e.g. http://..., www....)
  • Promotional keywords ("free download", "buy now", "bitcoin", "earn money", etc.)
  • Gibberish — long random letter strings

Flagged comments are hidden from the post page but kept for moderation. If a comment of yours was hidden by mistake, edit it to remove the offending text.

Reporting a comment

  • (3) See something inappropriate? Click Report under the comment, choose a reason, and add a short description.
  • Moderators review reports. Please only report genuine problems — not comments you simply disagree with.

Voting on comments

(4) Every comment has up/down arrows. Upvote comments that are helpful; downvote comments that are unhelpful or off-topic. Comment votes help surface the best conversation (see Voting).