First of all, thank you for all the great work in PieFed (I’m a huge fan of the Communities features), and the beautiful way of including user’s input in its development.
About the 2 questions in relation to the comment section, I searched in this community if it was a topic already discussed, but I didn’t find something in the search results. I’m sorry if I missed it, and please point me to the relevant post/discussion.
- I noticed that when I want to delete a comment I have the option to check a box saying
Also delete replies to this comment
I am not sure why this feature is available. Maybe someone writes a lazy comment and then gets a thoughtful and well researched reply, and maybe a great conversation evolves after. If one wants to delete their comment, this is fine, but having the possibility of deleting everybody else’s is something I have to admit I don’t understand.
- If I got this right, when the first comment of a conversation is highly downvoted, all the conversation that follows disappears. In practice, this means that everybody else’s input is in a way erased, since at somr point it is not visible. I believe a bad initial comment that gets a thoughtful reply can be a great conversation starter with many participants. So I don’t understand this approach neither.
If I may say so, the way I see things so far, these 2 features seem to discourage meaningful interactions in the comment section of PieFed, in the sense that why put any effort in repplying since it might go away. Of course maybe I misunderstood something. Not only that, there could also be many things that I don’t get which could make me see things differently, and this is why I thought of asking here.
In any case, thank you very much for taking the time to read all the above, and again thank you for all the work you put in PieFed.
Edit: super briefly the answers to my questions are below. For details see comment section.
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For question 1 the answer is that the check box works only for admins and mods
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For question 2 the answer is in Settings > Blocks & Filters > “Reply hide threshold”
A moderator deleting a chain of comments shouldn’t really be simply due to downvotes. It can be a useful tool when you have a huge chain of comments with people going wildly off topic and getting nasty with one another. I have only had to use it once before when a comment chain between two individuals devolved into personal attacks against one another.
After some testing, I found that the checkbox you are referring to does not actually delete all replies in a chain when it is checked by a non-moderator. Instead, it only deletes all the replies made by you in the chain. I submitted a fix to change the wording for this checkbox in the next version of piefed so that it clarifies this behavior.
I have the impression there is some sort of confusion, most probably I need to explain things better.
In this post I had 2 questions, you reply in relation to the 1st one. To my understanding this one was solved. I am also wondering about the 2nd one.
Here is an example about the 2nd one: In the following post see the thread starting by the comment of user gedaliyah. Notice it is present in lemmy, but not present in PieFed. At least for me?
Ah, yeah…it’s there, it is just sitting at a score of -135, so it is probably being hidden by your filters. On the Blocks & Filters page of your user settings, there is a threshold at which comments and posts are hidden automatically. Feel free to adjust this to whatever you desire. In this case, it would need to be something less than -135.
Thank you so much!! This is so exiting!!! PieFed and all of you are the very best <3