I've also noticed this issue, but I donīt think the problem is
browser related - I use both IE (by choice) and Netscape
(because Konqueror is not yet ready) and I remember having
created empty nodes with both browsers ...
There would be two fix possibilities :
- Create reply nodes only at submit-time
- Remove empty nodes after some timeout (like 1 hour)
The first method would be the Right Thing, while the second method
could be accomplished by simply kludging another daemon
to the database that cleans up unreferenced empty nodes
after some expiration time (which has other implications
for the reputation and/or experience of these nodes).