I also frequently make typo comments, and this problem is why I’ve begun neutral-voting my own typo comments, so they start on 0 karma. If others upvote them, the problem is that the upvote is meant to say “thanks for reporting this problem”, but it also means “I think more people should see this”. And once the typo is fixed, the comment is suddenly pointless, but still being promoted to others to see.
Alternatively, I think a site norm would be good where post authors are allowed and encouraged to just delete resolved typo comments and threads. I don’t know, however, if that would also delete the karma points the user has gained via reporting the typos. And it might feel discouraging for the typo reporters, knowing that their contribution is suddenly “erased” as if it had never happened.
A technical alternative would be an archival feature, where you or a post author can mark a comment as archived to indicate that it’s no longer relevant. Once archived, a comment is either moved to some separate comments tab, or auto-collapsed and sorted below all other comments, or something.
I agree it’s not great, though I don’t have any easy/quick solution for it.
I also frequently make typo comments, and this problem is why I’ve begun neutral-voting my own typo comments, so they start on 0 karma. If others upvote them, the problem is that the upvote is meant to say “thanks for reporting this problem”, but it also means “I think more people should see this”. And once the typo is fixed, the comment is suddenly pointless, but still being promoted to others to see.
Alternatively, I think a site norm would be good where post authors are allowed and encouraged to just delete resolved typo comments and threads. I don’t know, however, if that would also delete the karma points the user has gained via reporting the typos. And it might feel discouraging for the typo reporters, knowing that their contribution is suddenly “erased” as if it had never happened.
A technical alternative would be an archival feature, where you or a post author can mark a comment as archived to indicate that it’s no longer relevant. Once archived, a comment is either moved to some separate comments tab, or auto-collapsed and sorted below all other comments, or something.