Timeline for How do our moderators, and community members, feel about cleaning up comment noise?
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 15:05 | comment | added | Captain Sensible | @Renesis The basis of this dispute is that there are people who prefer to err on the side of caution and others who don't mind the occasional mistake (collateral damage) if it is for the greater good and with the best intentions. I believe a compromise can be found where both sides get what they want (sort of, but I did say it was a compromise): do not permanently delete flagged comments, simply hide them. Those who wish to read them can still do so at the click of a button. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 14:45 | comment | added | Nicole | @Seventh Element Don't be silly. The fact that it might be difficult to determine the helpfulness of comments in the gray area is no reason to keep all comments. Obviously votes, for one. It's also often easy to see that a dispute was wrapped up, or that nobody responded to a certain comment. | |
| Jun 27, 2011 at 9:43 | comment | added | Captain Sensible | @Renesis Who decides what is helpful and what isn't? You personally? | |
| Jun 24, 2011 at 20:40 | comment | added | Job | +1, Also helpful comments do float to the top. | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 2:49 | comment | added | jmort253 | @Jeff - Out of curiosity, I did check out Math Meta SE. What a nightmare! I completely understand what you mean. I couldn't imagine trying to be a moderator there. There seems to be quite a few people there -- moderators included -- who seem like they just like to rock the boat just to be difficult. | |
| Apr 30, 2011 at 2:30 | comment | added | jmort253 | @Jeff - This makes sense. I agree that trusting our moderators to make the right decisions definitely outweighs any potential lost value from deleted comments. I was merely playing devils advocate. | |
| Apr 26, 2011 at 8:49 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @jmort fortune favors the bold. Also, if we don't trust the moderators to do the right thing plus or minus 10 percent, there are deeper issues. See math.meta.se for example, which is a warzone. | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 9:30 | comment | added | jmort253 | @Renesis - The answer is no, not all comments are helpful to me. But it's worth noting that what you find helpful and what I find helpful may be different. How do we objectively determine what goes and what stays without someone losing value? | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 5:15 | comment | added | Nicole | Are you saying you find all comments helpful? Certainly I'm not encouraging the deletion of helpful comments. | |
| Apr 20, 2011 at 4:52 | history | answered | jmort253 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |