Am I the only one who that that beats was actually a pretty decent, if totally doomed, idea?

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I haven't had my morning coffee and I misread 'reply' as the username and thought you were having a big, multi-threaded conversation with yourself. :) I even vaguely thought 'is that guy's name reply?'

No, you aren't alone :) However reading [1] influenced my opinion.

[1] http://qntm.org/abolish