"Did you mean to reply to [top-reply]"?

[bvanrijn]

I have been thinking a lot about this over the past couple days. The bot will inevitably become part of a comment chain on Reddit, but sometimes people will continue a discussion (e.g. a reaction to the article) as a reply to the bot, risking that interested parties (e.g. the user who posted the AMP link) might never see the reply, stifling discussion.

Something akin to:

I read this interesting article https://google.com/amp/s/https://amp.example.com

Direct link: https://example.com

[hopefully the start of a constructive discussion]

I think a comment link the people who reply to the bot's comment of the top-reply (i.e. "I read this interesting article") would be helpful for this. To reduce spam, said comment would be deleted after a few hours.

Thoughts?