About the Numbered Comments at Vox Popoli

If you nuke-delete a comment, so it completely goes away, doesn't that mess with the comment numbers? So that further comments that reference comments after the deleted one (but made before the deletion occurs) end up pointing to the wrong comment? I've seen on other blogger blogs that it's possible to delete a comment and still leave a "tombstone". That might be better, or else get rid of comment-numbers entirely and encourage folks to reference comments by timestamp or by linking to the comment number.

Yeah, the linking to comment numbers system is uncorrectably busted. I still want the comment numbers, because they help me track where I am in a page, especially upon refresh. But we need a better system for linking to specific replies. For those who know HTML, it's simple, if tedious. The timestamp on each comment is a link. Make an A tag with that link URL as the href. You can't use BLOCKQUOTE tags in Blogger, because Blogger is retarded. So I recommend wrapping quoted text in B for bold. Italics is not the best choice for quotes, because sometimes there will be italics in the quote, a book title for instance. The Technical Directors of the ELOE have been working on a solution that will do all this annoying work for you, but there are problems to be solved with the user interface.