What is EY thinking hiding this? Unless… he thinks it’s right or might be, but only if we… no, even then, it’s best dealt with as quietly as it would be if it were never touched. No one would be thinking about this if it were left open.
It was not hidden because of the basilisk, but because it was a reply to a −4 post. It is no longer invisible on the user page. You can test my claim by downvoting the parent to −4 and reloading that user page.
Please don’t. This feature is a heuristic for reducing low-quality clutter (in the global comments feed and on the post pages). Assuming it usually works, precommitting to upvoting hidden comments amounts to precommitting to reducing of the average quality of the visible comments.
(The hidden comments are visible under the “comments” tab of user pages, just not under “overview”. Wei’s tool can be easily fixed to look at that page instead of “overview”.)
Thanks for telling me about this undocumented feature. Was there any way for me to learn about it other than yelling my head off? Is this the feedback you want to give?
PS—I’m not changing my actions until Wei’s tool stops invisibly failing.
PPS—here is the corresponding comments page on which the visibility of the particular comment does not seem to depend on the visibility of the parent.
I’m not changing my actions until Wei’s tool stops invisibly failing.
These things don’t seem related. Don’t express your frustration by randomly punishing the community.
(For example, if you believed that the hiding feature makes things worse, that might be a motivation to oppose it, although the method is anarchic, something like personally destroying draconian speed limit signs; but so far you haven’t indicated that there is any motivation at all.)
What is EY thinking hiding this? Unless… he thinks it’s right or might be, but only if we… no, even then, it’s best dealt with as quietly as it would be if it were never touched. No one would be thinking about this if it were left open.
It was not hidden because of the basilisk, but because it was a reply to a −4 post. It is no longer invisible on the user page. You can test my claim by downvoting the parent to −4 and reloading that user page.
I COMMIT TO UPVOTING EVERY HIDDEN COMMENT.
Please don’t. This feature is a heuristic for reducing low-quality clutter (in the global comments feed and on the post pages). Assuming it usually works, precommitting to upvoting hidden comments amounts to precommitting to reducing of the average quality of the visible comments.
(The hidden comments are visible under the “comments” tab of user pages, just not under “overview”. Wei’s tool can be easily fixed to look at that page instead of “overview”.)
Thanks for telling me about this undocumented feature. Was there any way for me to learn about it other than yelling my head off? Is this the feedback you want to give?
PS—I’m not changing my actions until Wei’s tool stops invisibly failing.
PPS—here is the corresponding comments page on which the visibility of the particular comment does not seem to depend on the visibility of the parent.
These things don’t seem related. Don’t express your frustration by randomly punishing the community.
(For example, if you believed that the hiding feature makes things worse, that might be a motivation to oppose it, although the method is anarchic, something like personally destroying draconian speed limit signs; but so far you haven’t indicated that there is any motivation at all.)