Hiding subthreads

Posted May 31, 2024 13:29 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Hiding subthreads by corbet
Parent article: A plea for more thoughtful comments

Just to echo some other replies to you: A simple CSS based (sub)-thread collapse feature, that worked on article comment threads and the unread comment threads would solve 99.99% of issues for me.

The comments on LWN are generally good. LWN hardly has a problem. Yes, we can have tangents, but hey... Some tangents can be interesting (to some) and you learn stuff, others you don't - for the latter a CSS +/- collapse function would work perfectly. Let me ignore those and skip on easily. Problem solved.

That people can discuss what they want and explore stuff is one of the good aspects of LWN. I wouldn't want to lose the good sub-threads, just cause of some less-interesting sub-threads.

Hiding subthreads

Posted May 31, 2024 15:13 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> That people can discuss what they want and explore stuff is one of the good aspects of LWN. I wouldn't want to lose the good sub-threads, just cause of some less-interesting sub-threads.

I bang on about Groklaw, but that was also why Groklaw was so good - you could discuss almost anything.

And Groklaw was aggressively moderated! I wasn't impressed when I fell foul on the odd occasion, but at least the rules were very understandable - PJ said "this is my blog, treat it like my living room. Anything I don't like gets deleted". But there was very little of that - the main rule was "if you can't back up your argument with logic or facts, don't stir the pot". So the debate couldn't get *too* heated because passion-based debate overstepped the line pretty quickly!

Cheers,
Wol

Hiding subthreads

Posted Jun 5, 2024 9:28 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

And what do I see today - a little [-] on comments, which I can click on and collapse (sub-)threads. Thank you dear editor! :)