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How do you think we should deal with compliments?
Compliments are, technically, to be tagged as 'noise' and often also 'offtopic' for usually being only loosely related to the commment or post they're replying to. But the warm fuzzies empathy is pretty important in a community, and I don't remember seeing an unnecessary compliment anywhere so, unsurprisingly, people don't noise compliments. But they still might clutter space for a potential reply giving advice. So do you think the current arrangement is fine? I personally would probably make a label for compliments which would either be neutral or slightly positive, and maybe publically visible so everyone can (but don't have to) see the compliments of the receiver but I haven't thought about this too deeply.
No need to solve a problem that doesn't exist. As you said, they serve a good purpose and they don't currently get noised or clutter a thread.
I've read your comment three times and can't figure out what problem you are trying to solve. Compliments aren't noise, nor are they off-topic, and they are rare on this site anyway. I would be shocked if there was a user that felt the need to filter out the one or two compliments that show up from time to time.