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I think comments are where the action is. Three simple things that get most of the bang of markdown IMO: Working permalinks for comments, paragraph dividers and clickable links.

>>akkart+(OP)
There should be a page which lists the submissions that have recently been commented on. Otherwise, it's essentially meaningless to make thoughtful comments on old threads. Having a *hide* option would be welcome too.

>>akkart+(OP)
For the time being, I'd settle for just converting newlines to br's. Adding hyperlinks before there's solid infrastructure for dealing with spam would be a mistake. I'll be surprised if more than few days go by before spam shows up, even without hyperlinks.

>>rmack0+l
Spam actually showed up the first day. Fortunately we already had good tools for dealing with it.

>>akkart+(OP)
done; we now have all three of these

>>wicked+k
there is a prototype of this at news.ycombinator.com/active

>>pg+G81
That works well. A listing of the most active is better than a listing of recently commented on. What's the threshold for most active?

>>pg+E
What type of spam do you get and how do you handle it?