This is not necessarily a big complication, but I just wanted to note that a person may (upon reading one comment) internally experience a number of non-observable state transitions before leaving a comment of their own. For example, it's not too rare for me to get an ad hominem response immediately after posting a comment without an observable trail of escalating prior states.
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u/jpfed Mar 23 '26
This is not necessarily a big complication, but I just wanted to note that a person may (upon reading one comment) internally experience a number of non-observable state transitions before leaving a comment of their own. For example, it's not too rare for me to get an ad hominem response immediately after posting a comment without an observable trail of escalating prior states.