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Get Rid of the "comment deleted" Artifact

Posted by WesleyMooch 12 years, 1 month ago to The Gulch: Archive

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Get rid of the "comment deleted" artifact. It's unnecessary, ugly clutter.

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Posted by sdesapio 12 years, 1 month ago

The "comment deleted" box offers context to the deleted comment's child comments. If we removed the "comments deleted" box, we would have child comments simply floating without a parent comment making it very difficult to follow the thread.

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  Posted by jmlesniewski 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Context matters!
  
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  Posted by WesleyMooch 12 years, 1 month ago
  
  Why not make only childless parents deletable? If this is a hardcoded impossibility, I'd see about replacing software. Expandable/collapsible posting would be an improvement too. A better mousetrap is always possible, and if the one you need doesn't exist, build your own.
  
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