Dear @eturnerx
I think this is why the disappearing comments are ultimately a good thing. Each tribe can decide on membership, blacklisting etc. I think this'll give a more community feel to each tribe because tribe members can find each other's comments more easily.
Partly true. However if "regular joe" would realize that each time after checking PALnet and replying to comments, he still need to change front end to read and reply to all missing comments, then it would end up only with this user abandoning PALnet (noone likes to do same job twice).
Luckily I already realized that all comments are visible. Just counter is misleading on PALnet and it doesn't really count all comments.
Yours
Piotr