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I've taken to downvoting such comments. Not because I disagree with them or think they are wrong, but simply because they are offtopic and taking the place of a

I've taken to downvoting such comments. Not because I disagree with them or think they are wrong, but simply because they are offtopic and taking the place of a better ontopic comment. We really need an 'offtopic' flagging mechanism.

saraid216 15y ago
1) I'd argue that downvoting is an appropriate course of action for this. As I understand it, the purpose of downvoting is to discourage the type of comment or submission being downvoted. 2) A little Javascriptiness to collapse trees of comments would do wonders to make it ignorable, too.
- drostie 15y ago
  Not to spam, but I took your suggestion and implemented it at: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027 https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027
jsprinkles 15y ago
Unfortunately, downvoting is going to do absolutely nothing because there are a plethora of people upvoting it.
- beedogs 15y ago
  It must suck to be forced to read and respond multiple times to it, too.