Yeah, agreed. (My main hesitation is UI complexity, every feature you add adds a bit of overwhelm to the site)
FYI, for the immediate future, I sometimes solve this by self-downvoting my comment (and saying I did so at the beginning of the comment). Comments with karma ⇐ 0 don’t show up in Recent Discussion. People do sometimes upvote it later but typically after it’d already be lower in the recent discussion list.
If the user downvoted the thing (comment/post) they’re replying to, then hide the reply from Recent Discussion. In theory, this would cover both the “heated political debate” case and the “low quality post” case.
If the forum downvoted the thing they’re replying to (i.e. karma ≤ 0), then hide the reply from Recent Discussion. This would cover only the “low quality post” case.
If I were implementing this, I would first look at a bunch of samples of comment chains matching the above queries, to see how well theory matches reality.
Yeah, agreed. (My main hesitation is UI complexity, every feature you add adds a bit of overwhelm to the site)
FYI, for the immediate future, I sometimes solve this by self-downvoting my comment (and saying I did so at the beginning of the comment). Comments with karma ⇐ 0 don’t show up in Recent Discussion. People do sometimes upvote it later but typically after it’d already be lower in the recent discussion list.
Perhaps one of these strategies?
If the user downvoted the thing (comment/post) they’re replying to, then hide the reply from Recent Discussion. In theory, this would cover both the “heated political debate” case and the “low quality post” case.
If the forum downvoted the thing they’re replying to (i.e. karma ≤ 0), then hide the reply from Recent Discussion. This would cover only the “low quality post” case.
If I were implementing this, I would first look at a bunch of samples of comment chains matching the above queries, to see how well theory matches reality.
Look at this badass needing to self-downvote
then make it a hidden feature. another compromise is DMs.