Ok, that was too strong, but I think I still have a reasonable point here.
Once you’ve read the “hundreds of other posts”, you can follow most subsequent posts, and even then we encourage people to link unfamiliar concepts to the wiki or past posts. But in this case apparently you need to have read hundreds of comments just to follow one particular post.
We don’t even expect people to follow the posts here without having read hundreds of other posts; “stand on its own” seems a little strong.
Ok, that was too strong, but I think I still have a reasonable point here.
Once you’ve read the “hundreds of other posts”, you can follow most subsequent posts, and even then we encourage people to link unfamiliar concepts to the wiki or past posts. But in this case apparently you need to have read hundreds of comments just to follow one particular post.