Timeline for Evolving comments: An experiment to encourage engagement and follow-up questions
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| Oct 16 at 3:09 | comment | added | jay613 | I have more than once reposted a comment that I thought failed to post for technical reasons, or that I thought I forgot to press Add after writing, but that I think, in fact, were deleted by bots. If I could see them, I might not repost or I might improve them. I don't know! I have no way of knowing, ever, how many of my comments were deleted by moderators or bots and why. It would be great they could tag deletions that their authors could see. | |
| Apr 28 at 23:26 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @RyanM repost = ban (could be automated). Nowadays, since I can't access my deleted comments, I sometimes don't know if I'm reposting. | |
| Apr 28 at 22:29 | comment | added | Ryan M | While this is a reasonable thing to consider, I'd want to approach it with great caution. Comments are sometimes deleted to quietly end or de-escalate a contentious interaction; giving users an easy way to find (and potentially re-post) such comments might lead to users re-escalating a situation. | |
| Apr 28 at 17:37 | comment | added | Y.A. | I concur and here's why: On one occasion I've posted comments that were followed by a user getting very upset about it and the whole thread was deleted. If we have access to comments then what I did (pestering the local mod to tell me if I did anything wrong) wouldn't be necessary as I could have decided for myself if the user was justified in losing their temper at what I said (or didn't). Seeing deleted comments facilitates self-auditing for future interactions. | |
| Apr 28 at 17:14 | history | answered | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |