Ask HN: No reply link as you get further into comments causes silly editing.

This seems to be a fairly recent feature, but it just doesn't seem the right way to go about things to me. Fairly irritating.

I was just reading the comments here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830939

Interesting discussions, but then you have people editing their previous comment because they can't reply yet.

>> EDIT: good points in reply to this... (I can't reply any deeper in the thread, so I'll just acknowledge it here)

Is there a description somewhere of the problem this solves and why it's needed? Hacker news seemed to function pretty well when you could reply to whatever you wanted whenever you wanted to.