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Hacker News: Stop greying out flagged comments

7 points by jason_shah 15y ago

jason_shah 15y ago
As I say in the post, this is meant as purely constructive (not blindly or rudely critical). I think a different approach to downmodded comments would be helpful in achieving the intended purpose, which to me is limiting visibility of inflammatory comments.
abcd_f 15y ago
Collapsing is not a bad idea if there's a threshold setting in Preferences set to some sensible default (e.g. -5).
DanBC 15y ago
As politely as I can: I dislike the small font and grey-on-white combination of your website. One disadvantage of greyed comments (on HN) is the potential for "pile on" down-votes. But I think you need to provide more examples of people responding to grey comments. And, really, if it leads to thoughtful discussion there's nothing wrong with replying to grey comments. Especially when some people are suggesting that downvoting is being used to express simple disagreement rather than "doesn't belong on HNness". This is so meta. I need to set a filter.
dutchbrit 15y ago
Just make flagged comments have a smaller font-size instead?
codesuela 15y ago
can someone tell me how the autokilling of accounts works? My current understanding is that if you write a comment that goes below -x karma, your account is auto killed and every comment you wrote and will write in the future is dead and not visible unless you have showdead enabled.
- dwynings 15y ago
  My understanding is that killing accounts isn't based on karma, but on how many times your submissions and comments have been flagged.
kissickas 15y ago
Is the graying of comments meant to hide them, or simply to warn that they are inflammatory, incorrect, or otherwise not worth your time? I sometimes do read grayed comments but I rather like how it filters the whole comment so well while still allowing me to read it without uncollapsing it as on reddit.
tzs 15y ago
I use a browser add-on that lets me inject CSS into a page to add this to HN: font[color="#e6e6e6"], font[color="#9c9c9c"], font[color="#737373"], font[color="#bebebe"], font[color="#aeaeae"], font[color="#888888"], font[color="#cecece"], font[color="#dddddd"], font[color="#5a5a5a"] { color: #800000 !important; } That makes flagged comments red, so they are easy to see. About 80% of the time I then up vote them, because 80% of the comment flagging is done by idiots.

7 points by jason_shah 15y ago

As I say in the post, this is meant as purely constructive (not blindly or rudely critical). I think a different approach to downmodded comments would be helpful in achieving the intended purpose, which to me is limiting visibility of inflammatory comments.

abcd_f 15y ago

Collapsing is not a bad idea if there's a threshold setting in Preferences set to some sensible default (e.g. -5).

DanBC 15y ago

As politely as I can: I dislike the small font and grey-on-white combination of your website. One disadvantage of greyed comments (on HN) is the potential for "pile on" down-votes. But I think you need to provide more examples of people responding to grey comments. And, really, if it leads to thoughtful discussion there's nothing wrong with replying to grey comments. Especially when some people are suggesting that downvoting is being used to express simple disagreement rather than "doesn't belong on HNness". This is so meta. I need to set a filter.

dutchbrit 15y ago

Just make flagged comments have a smaller font-size instead?

codesuela 15y ago

can someone tell me how the autokilling of accounts works? My current understanding is that if you write a comment that goes below -x karma, your account is auto killed and every comment you wrote and will write in the future is dead and not visible unless you have showdead enabled.

dwynings 15y ago
My understanding is that killing accounts isn't based on karma, but on how many times your submissions and comments have been flagged.

kissickas 15y ago

Is the graying of comments meant to hide them, or simply to warn that they are inflammatory, incorrect, or otherwise not worth your time? I sometimes do read grayed comments but I rather like how it filters the whole comment so well while still allowing me to read it without uncollapsing it as on reddit.

tzs 15y ago

I use a browser add-on that lets me inject CSS into a page to add this to HN: font[color="#e6e6e6"], font[color="#9c9c9c"], font[color="#737373"], font[color="#bebebe"], font[color="#aeaeae"], font[color="#888888"], font[color="#cecece"], font[color="#dddddd"], font[color="#5a5a5a"] { color: #800000 !important; } That makes flagged comments red, so they are easy to see. About 80% of the time I then up vote them, because 80% of the comment flagging is done by idiots.