Hiding subthreads

Posted May 31, 2024 15:13 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Hiding subthreads by paulj
Parent article: A plea for more thoughtful comments

> 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