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Oh wait, you detached it from the comment I was answering to? But is it still visible to other users? confused

• dang 10y ago
  Yes, when comments break the site guidelines, we often detach the resulting subthreads from their original parent and mark them off-topic so they fall to the bottom of the page. Your comment broke the site guidelines by taking an already-divisive topic in an even more inflammatory direction. There's no way that a rape-victim-blaming analogy (especially one casually tossed in, as you did) can possibly improve a discussion like this either in civility or substantiveness, which are the two things we care about.
  • danmaz74 10y ago
    I really don't understand what sense does it make to leave the comment still visible to new readers, but out of context - if it is offensive then more people are going to read it and get offended, and without context it just doesn't make sense. Unless the idea is to use this as a form of shaming. I managed a political online forum for a couple years, and IMHO it's much more correct to just remove or detach the thread so that it's not visible in the original discussion. Just my two cents.
    • dang 10y ago
      > without context it just doesn't make sense That's why we include the context by linking to it.
      • danmaz74 10y ago
        You mean in your comment about my comment having been detached? OK I get it now. Still don't find this system ideal, but at least I get it now.