The problem is downvoting fatigue when someone posts multiple troll comments. I support banhammering all of a user’s posts when they’re all being downvoted and are all clearly not suited to LW.
That would seem then to be the most obvious convenient fix- make it possible to ban people without deleting comments. Or even better, have a button which bans them and deletes all comments that don’t have replies. That way the only comments removed are those which didn’t have any discussion associated with them.
The problem is downvoting fatigue when someone posts multiple troll comments. I support banhammering all of a user’s posts when they’re all being downvoted and are all clearly not suited to LW.
You could just banhammer the user and leave the posts be.
We currently don’t have a button for that.
That would seem then to be the most obvious convenient fix- make it possible to ban people without deleting comments. Or even better, have a button which bans them and deletes all comments that don’t have replies. That way the only comments removed are those which didn’t have any discussion associated with them.
Another fix would be to have comments by users with sufficiently negative karma hidden by default.