I concur - RAPatton

I discuss the issues of copies vs references in this Scripting News piece. It's a big issue these days. It's understandable that copies must be made when things move among silos, but within a silo why not deal in pointers? (Or give the choice to the user.) http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Dave Winer

Dave, that sounds like a discussion that's very familiar to programmers. In an optimal world, we would have an autorelease pool with reference counting (each additional usage of a posting increments the reference count so that it won't get deleted if the original posting is deleted) with the optional possibility to create copies if you intentionally want to break the connection between two items. - Ole Begemann

I don't use the reblog for that very reason. - Russellreno

Interesting. - Hao Chen

Agreed - I'd like the comments to port over. - Hutch Carpenter

Why not just "like" the original story? Has the same end effect. If someone wants to see everything you liked, they can check out your "likes" page. - Mark Trapp

one area that I've wished this for is for re-sharing into a relevant room, be nice to have a single thread. - felix

Ole, there is a fair amount of software, all around us, everywhere you look in fact! - Dave Winer

Whoa, "like" does what? I've liked lots of things but they don't go on my output queue do they? How could I have missed that. - Dave Winer

Both "like" and "comment" exposes the story to all your subscribers. It's Friendfeed's killer feature. - Mark Trapp

Dave - good discussion about that very feature happening now: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Hutch Carpenter