Reply #14: i've been cursing microsoft [View All]

[sweetheart]

all i figure is that the buffer-cache allocated for a given browser window fills up and starts attempting to swap... the machine locks and i curse Mr. gates and pull the power plug... it happens pretty much every time i'm on DU... so that is why i mentioned it.

I agree that threads should be broken to manageable size, as indeed there are longer threads where they literally lose a whole subcommunity of DU readers/writers. That is why i mention it... i figure as the thread gets larger, the number of "DU members who read it" gets exponentially smaller... until it dies, not by its argument, but by our failure as software engineers to create a system that promotes more diverse and complex discussion... perhaps a longer thread should simply break in to links as it gets longer that there is appearant continuity using hypertext.