> People should be able to decide for themselves what they see and read, including delegating that authority. HN, for example, has the "showdead" preference opt

> People should be able to decide for themselves what they see and read, including delegating that authority. HN, for example, has the "showdead" preference option for opting in to seeing comments marked dead by the mods. > HN strikes a good balance, and lets people opt in or out of comment moderation. While this is a good idea (and I use the showdead option myself), it is incomplete. To complete it might include such thing as: - Add another preference option to force everything to be displayed in chronological order. - If you have enough disk space to allow it, allow replies to dead and old messages, which are automatically also dead.