I completely agree with what your saying here (with regards to how off topic posts effect community’s) @dreemsteem.
I have included some other ideas over at HQ (since our last conversation there) that might add more to the conversation.
I think it’s fully within a communities rights to manage the posts that showUP within their feed… what comes into question therefore, is where the owner of the posts ownership begins and the communities ends.
In my opinion the comments belong to the post author… no matter if they are in error for the particular hashtag used or not.
I realize this is a fine line however…
More specifically I didn’t want to get into how communities decide to manage their feeds. That is within their ability and rights to do so…
More I wanted to talk about the specifics of how those functions effect user experience (for other hashtags) or in this case use comments after the fact.
To me anyways… muting comments on someone’s post seems a bit excessive.
I used to manage a fitness community on Hive called #AutomaticWin and #Win. There were, of course, situations where I wanted to mute or remove offending posts from the feed. And that functionality makes sense. But also muting comments on those posts… I never wanted that level of oversight.
So long as I can get it out of the feed it shouldn’t be needed.
Perhaps this broader mute function is operational because of the nature of the blockchain and its inability to actually remove content from a specific hashtag once it is deployed… but I think this demonstrates exactly where we are from an innovation standpoint… and potentially where we may want to go.
That’s the point of the open conversation. To get that ball rolling. This is meant (as always) to be an opportunity for constructive feedback to those frontends (@ecency and @peakd mainly) we all use… because they bring to life the blockchain we all use and love.
Thank you for weighing in and sharing your thoughts @dreemsteem! I do, as always, appreciate this!
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