Comment threads are conversations! If you have one person in a conversation who can’t see other participants, everything gets confusing and weird.
The additional confusion seems pretty minimal, if the muted comments are clearly marked so others are aware that the author can’t see them. (Compare to the baseline confusion where I’m already pretty unsure who has read which other comments.)
I just don’t get how this is worse than making it so that certain perspectives are completely missing from the comments.
The additional confusion seems pretty minimal, if the muted comments are clearly marked so others are aware that the author can’t see them. (Compare to the baseline confusion where I’m already pretty unsure who has read which other comments.)
I just don’t get how this is worse than making it so that certain perspectives are completely missing from the comments.