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This could revolutionize social news sites. Imagine if the average reddit/digg/slashdot user were to actually read the article he was commenting on first.

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I am less than confident that it would significantly affect the inanity of the comments.

I'm thinking you could only allow someone to comment or vote after they've viewed the page by doing the :visited css trick

Replies to other comments ought to still be enabled, because threads don't always stay strictly true to the subject of the original post.

Otherwise, I think that's a pretty clever idea.

Presumably you have to be logged in to be able to comment, so it seems easier to just remember what every user has read.

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