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I'm thinking this would significantly affect the effectiveness of this new feature. Maybe we'd get some flamewar thread depth transferred into breadth but other
by Hexstream 17y ago
I'm thinking this would significantly affect the effectiveness of this new feature. Maybe we'd get some flamewar thread depth transferred into breadth but otherwise have about the same quantity of flame comments?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoExactly. Let's say I'm really mad at your comment you just wrote. Really mad. So the little "reply" button isn't showing up. Do I a) stop being angry because a little button is disabled or b) find some other way to vent online? I'm voting for b. And if you're going to vent anyway, I'd rather you nest it. That's what nested comments are for, anyway -- stuff that gets more and more detailed about a particular conversation.
- TrevorJ 17y agoThat's why I think auto-collapsing threads with less then a certain threshold of karma after a period of time might be the way to go.
- lucumo 17y agoForget auto-collapsing, I'd like to be able to collapse period. It happens quite often that I've already read a really long thread and just want to skip over it to the new stuff, or that the topic discussed in the thread is just not that interesting to me, but the topic of the post is.
- mechanical_fish 17y agoMaybe we'd get some flamewar thread depth transferred into breadth Ah, but replies to existing comments track the original comment as it moves up and down the screen. Brand-new comments sink or swim on their own merit. I'm thinking that Original Insight A might get upmodded, but Insulting Name For The Commenter's Mother B'' will not get upmodded and will sink out of sight. Of course, that might not actually help. It will be a fun experiment.