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I see no reason to use additional mechanism. Why not use upvote? I'm upvoting stories so I could see them later (as ColinWright noted), why not create a page I

by stralep 14y ago

I see no reason to use additional mechanism. Why not use upvote? I'm upvoting stories so I could see them later (as ColinWright noted), why not create a page I could see comments I liked?

andyjohnson0 14y ago
Separation of concerns. You might want to be able to tag a post or comment as noteworthy but not want to upvote it. For example, to remind you to come back to it and add a comment explaining why its wrong or that you disagree with it. Basically: Upvote != Save for Later
- icebraining 14y ago
  Isn't that what bookmarks are for? Why do we need HN to recreate basic browser functionality?
  - politician 14y ago
    Perhaps to address a limitation in browsers wherein it is not currently possible to scope bookmarks to a given site during a search for said bookmarks?
    - icebraining 14y ago
      That's what folders are for. And in any case, if you bookmark the comments page, you can then search by the hn domain, at least on Firefox.