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Has anyone else noticed a lot of collapsed comments lately?
You can label someone's post and get them collapsed and I swear some people go out of their way to do that
You can label someone's post and get them collapsed and I swear some people go out of their way to do that
Do you mean the noise tag? If you visit a thread again after new comments i think it collapses all the comments except for the newest ones... do you maybe mean that?
E: that’s actually a setting, 'Collapse old comments when I return to a topic’
I'm pretty sure that, as @ali says, you're just confused with previously-viewed threads being collapsed when you re-visit a topic.
It generally requires at least 2 users to label the same comment as Noise for it to be collapsed, so one person can't just do it to whatever they want, even if they try. Less than 1% of comments in the last week have been collapsed because of Noise labels.
Just to add to that @annadane, you can disable that behaviour in the settings.
So would two noise labels be equivalent to two downvotes on Reddit? This seems like really low threshold to collapse a comment.
To be fair, we have significantly less users than Reddit and are currently invite-only; someone who abuses the Noise label would probably be dealt with. The number of labels required to collapse a comment can be tweaked if necessary in the future.