A Small But Important Change at Scienceblogs.com

This is smallish, but many of you will appreciate it: Comments now have numbers, like they should! So, we'all can more effectively yell at each other in the comments section! Yay!

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I can haz wun?

I may be number 2 but I try harder.

By Richard Chapman (not verified) on 24 Jan 2013 #permalink

What happens if an admin removes a comment? Do they renumber?

(An argument for devowelification or whatever it's called.)

By Uncle Glenny (not verified) on 24 Jan 2013 #permalink