I'm thinking it's because I just registered and don't have enough reputation to Add a Comment, so on my own question it automatically shows the boxes rather than the link.

But that doesn't quite make sense to me, wouldn't it be just as easy to show the link rather than show all these boxes? Was there a design reason behind this or is this just a bug?

I remembered the freehand circles this time. http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/8565/imgeb.jpg

I'm thinking it's because I just registered and don't have enough reputation to Add a Comment, so on my own question it automatically shows the boxes rather than the link.

But that doesn't quite make sense to me, wouldn't it be just as easy to show the link rather than show all these boxes? Was there a design reason behind this or is this just a bug?