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Downvoting and threaded view is hard to combine. What you describe is the trivial way. It has the downside that if a comment has few subcomments, downvoting the
by xorcist 12y ago
Downvoting and threaded view is hard to combine. What you describe is the trivial way. It has the downside that if a comment has few subcomments, downvoting them don't accomplish very much.
- r00fus 12y agoSlashdot solved it by "re-parenting" - i.e., a great reply to a redundant/trollish comment will appear to start it's own thread. Another approach is simply to hide the offensive comment and weight the entire thread in relation to other threads when determining display order.