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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
Today there's a few different reasons there can be a collapsed comment including user and community settings although people tend to think the only reason for collapse is controversial. We wanted to make sure we had all of the considerations for preferences, privacy, and communication before we made a determination on how and what to display as collapse reasons.
Comment by icefall5 at 11/12/2019 at 02:12 UTC
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Is this why some comments were arbitrarily collapsed on /r/games recently? I had no idea why that was happening, I assumed they applied some CSS that hid the "low score" message or something like that. Better messaging somehow would be really nice.
Comment by Cardinal_Ravenwood at 11/12/2019 at 11:12 UTC
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although people tend to think the only reason for collapse is controversial
That might be because that's been the way it has been on reddit pretty much since the upvote and downvote buttons came into the platform.
It was a way to still maintain having a dissenting opinon that was downvoted heavily to still be viewed by people that choose to still see that content.
Instead now you are proposing to try hide opinons, downvoted or not, just because a user either hasn't had any interaction with a sub before or because they might not align with whatever the mods want to make up.
Also are users meant to already know that a sub is liberal or conservative? or that it star wars fans comment will be hidden in star trek subs? Or furries can't talk with the bronies? No women in the mens subs? Anyone from the computer subs get hidden in the sports subs? You see what a devisive control measure this could be used for, right?
Let the users downvote. It's what reddit has used to control that for ever. Don't fix what isn't broken.