Comment on Is there a way to show or view replies to deleted comments?

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think if a comment is deleted, replies should remain hidden. I’d say the current behavior is more beneficial, despite the obvious tradeoff.

While sometimes there can be some helpful information in replies to deleted posts or comments, the vast, vast majority of those kinds of threads are just flamewars and arguing, then new people joining the battle later on and more arguing and flamewars happen. Lemmy doesn’t need more of that. If there was some question answered in one of those deleted replies, someone else can just ask that question again as a post, its not the end of the world.

Besides, a thread with a lot of deleted comments is an awful reading experience. If you ever went to Reddit and their main “science” subreddit, you better have all the discussion you can in the first 15 minutes of the post, because after that they just became a [removed] graveyard, regardless of what was said.

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