Moderation of apparent trolling

lsparrish

A brief line from this comment indicates that the author of the cryonics-critical comment quoted here was perhaps not the one that deleted it.

You know what - I am rather glad my comment was deleted on less wrong - good reason for people not to post on there.

Was it deleted by a moderator?

Honestly, the decisive downvoting seemed to do the trick of hiding it from casual readers who don't want to see the long annoying rants. I don't think it was casting any doubt on the credibility of cryonics.

While it sounds like the author regrets posting it, I would think they should be allowed to delete it themselves.

Edit: Originally titled "Cryonics critical comment deleted?"

A brief line from this comment indicates that the author of the cryonics-critical comment quoted here was perhaps not the one that deleted it.

You know what - I am rather glad my comment was deleted on less wrong - good reason for people not to post on there.

Was it deleted by a moderator?

While it sounds like the author regrets posting it, I would think they should be allowed to delete it themselves.

Edit: Originally titled "Cryonics critical comment deleted?"

I didn't ban them, and whichever mod did, I support them fully. See Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism.

We need the following features on LW:

1) Banned comments no longer appear on user pages. Otherwise spammers have a motive to spam in order to steal pagerank.

2) When a comment is banned or goes to say -4 or below, but not when that comment is deleted, subcomments of it no longer appear in the Recent Comments feed. This will help ensure that stupid discussions ACTUALLY GET PRUNED rather than going on forever.

3) Automatic warning when a user posts a comment falling under 2.

4) Automatic warning when a user tries to delete a comment that already has subcomments, which people seem to do by accident a lot.

The way to avoid contributing pagerank is rel=nofollow.

22Eugine_Nier15y

I'm not sure 1) is a good idea. As Paul Graham says here. [...]

15JoshuaZ15y

3 and 4 seem reasonable. 1 seems not so. Spam is dealt with pretty well, userpages have very low Google rankings, and external links already have nofollow tags so they don't add to page rank. 2 seems also problematic because there are conversation threads that start with highly downvoted comments but themselves contain useful remarks.