Rather than it being a simple checkbox to opt into the “collapse comments below 10 votes” feature, it might be better to allow the user to choose the threshold themselves. In my experience, except in specific technical topics, comments with karma above 10 are usually expressing popular opinion that is unlikely to lead to an update in my mental model. Because of that, I’m unlikely to opt into this. However, I’ve also found that comments at 1 karma (no votes) are also often in the same category. So being able to set the threshold at just 2 or 3 would be pretty useful, to both conserve space and also avoid skipping over potentially the most useful content.
What was I thinking actually (after seeing it on a variety of posts with varying karma ranges of comments) is that my own preference is probably for it infer where to set the threshold based on the minimum, average and maximum karma among comments. I think I also probably prefer the filter to kick in at 100 comments instead of 50.
I think maybe having it default to “auto infer” but you can set the threshold manually (and easily) might be the best version.
Yeah, I think us making it a settable threshold is correct, though we might not have that ready at launch or get around to it for a bit because it’s just additional technical complexity.
Rather than it being a simple checkbox to opt into the “collapse comments below 10 votes” feature, it might be better to allow the user to choose the threshold themselves. In my experience, except in specific technical topics, comments with karma above 10 are usually expressing popular opinion that is unlikely to lead to an update in my mental model. Because of that, I’m unlikely to opt into this. However, I’ve also found that comments at 1 karma (no votes) are also often in the same category. So being able to set the threshold at just 2 or 3 would be pretty useful, to both conserve space and also avoid skipping over potentially the most useful content.
What was I thinking actually (after seeing it on a variety of posts with varying karma ranges of comments) is that my own preference is probably for it infer where to set the threshold based on the minimum, average and maximum karma among comments. I think I also probably prefer the filter to kick in at 100 comments instead of 50.
I think maybe having it default to “auto infer” but you can set the threshold manually (and easily) might be the best version.
Yeah, I think us making it a settable threshold is correct, though we might not have that ready at launch or get around to it for a bit because it’s just additional technical complexity.