First of all, thank you for all the great work in PieFed (I’m a huge fan of the Communities features), and the beautiful way of including user’s input in its development.
About the 2 questions in relation to the comment section, I searched in this community if it was a topic already discussed, but I didn’t find something in the search results. I’m sorry if I missed it, and please point me to the relevant post/discussion.
- I noticed that when I want to delete a comment I have the option to check a box saying
Also delete replies to this comment
I am not sure why this feature is available. Maybe someone writes a lazy comment and then gets a thoughtful and well researched reply, and maybe a great conversation evolves after. If one wants to delete their comment, this is fine, but having the possibility of deleting everybody else’s is something I have to admit I don’t understand.
- If I got this right, when the first comment of a conversation is highly downvoted, all the conversation that follows disappears. In practice, this means that everybody else’s input is in a way erased, since at somr point it is not visible. I believe a bad initial comment that gets a thoughtful reply can be a great conversation starter with many participants. So I don’t understand this approach neither.
If I may say so, the way I see things so far, these 2 features seem to discourage meaningful interactions in the comment section of PieFed, in the sense that why put any effort in repplying since it might go away. Of course maybe I misunderstood something. Not only that, there could also be many things that I don’t get which could make me see things differently, and this is why I thought of asking here.
In any case, thank you very much for taking the time to read all the above, and again thank you for all the work you put in PieFed.
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Alright, I did some testing, and this feature is not quite working as intended. Here are the results of my testing:
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A normal user (non-mod or admin) checks this box:
- The user’s comment will be deleted, but…
- it will not delete the comments of other users
- The normal user’s other comments down the chain will also be deleted.
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A mod or admin checks this box:
- All the comments in the chain are deleted as expected
Well that’s okay then, because it allows a user to mass-delete their own comments.
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I’ll wait to see what people want but I probably intended the ‘delete child comments’ feature to be for moderators only. For cleaning up threads that have gone off on a bad tangent.
I’ve actually used it, so it’s very useful to just clean up an angry back and forth. But it should be mods only.
Maybe a user could have “delete all my comments in this chain”.
This sounds like a very usefull tool for mods!
Yeah, I remember the discussion about this feature and it was only intended for mods. Seems like a permissions check isn’t working right.
It would probably be better indeed
Since comments can and will do from other servers that you dont control we should probably change the wording to something like delete local representation of comments from view or something along those lines.
Naah, when mods delete things it federates out.
@rimu your telling me you as the mod can delete this comment from my server?
I don’t know if Mastodon would honor the delete request (probably not?) but if your instance was PieFed or Lemmy then yes. I moderate piefed_meta and other threadiverse instances know that.
About your first point, it’s a bit similar to how posters on Lemmy and Piefed can delete their post, even if it has meaningful comments.
It happens from time to time and is frustrating, there’s nothing preventing it
