It’s not promoted as a first-class feature since most people don’t have enough time to read quite so many comments, and need more filtering, but some people requested it and use it, and the code-implementation is simple, so it won’t be going away.
The reason negatively-voted comments don’t appear is because it once shared code with the All Posts page, which has a checkbox for controlling that, but it doesn’t have a checkbox wired up. GitHub issue: https://github.com/LessWrong2/Lesswrong2/issues/2415 . Hiding negative-karma content used to be important because the most-recent content was often spam, and displaying it in between when it was posted and when the mods deleted it made for a bad experience; but we now have enough other anti-spam measures in place that this isn’t really a concern.
The way pagination is currently handled is something we inherited from our framework, which is pretty suboptimal. At some point we’re going to redo the way pagination is handled, not for allComments in particular but at a lower level which will affect multiple places, allComments included. This is likely to be awhile, though, since it’s a somewhat involved piece of development and there are more important things in the queue in front of it.
It’s not promoted as a first-class feature since most people don’t have enough time to read quite so many comments, and need more filtering, but some people requested it and use it, and the code-implementation is simple, so it won’t be going away.
The reason negatively-voted comments don’t appear is because it once shared code with the All Posts page, which has a checkbox for controlling that, but it doesn’t have a checkbox wired up. GitHub issue: https://github.com/LessWrong2/Lesswrong2/issues/2415 . Hiding negative-karma content used to be important because the most-recent content was often spam, and displaying it in between when it was posted and when the mods deleted it made for a bad experience; but we now have enough other anti-spam measures in place that this isn’t really a concern.
The way pagination is currently handled is something we inherited from our framework, which is pretty suboptimal. At some point we’re going to redo the way pagination is handled, not for allComments in particular but at a lower level which will affect multiple places, allComments included. This is likely to be awhile, though, since it’s a somewhat involved piece of development and there are more important things in the queue in front of it.