Comment 42542

By crhayes (registered) - website | Posted June 28, 2010 at 21:47:59

What if you can only vote for a comment if you have contributed to that discussion, and if a certain percentage of comment votes are 'down votes' than the comment is deleted. The reasoning behind this suggestion is that users who have participated in the conversation are probably more aware of the context of the comment in question (i.e. they're more likely to have followed the entire conversation) and therefore are better judges of whether or not it warrants deletion. Furthermore, if the majority of contributors think the comment is garbage than it probably deserves to be deleted.

Edit: I realize this approach is more complex than I originally thought, as you would still need a 'number of comments threshold' (so, for example, a comment with 1 up vote and 1 down vote doesn't get deleted!)

My two cents :)

Comment edited by crhayes on 2010-06-28 20:55:59

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