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Add "mark as read" option for posts and comments (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Hexbear, moderators may factor upvote activity into moderation decisions.

Some users treat upvotes as a “mark as read” function, which weakens score reliability and therefore negatively impacts The Algorithm.

Please provide a separate mechanism for users to identify posts that they have already read, which will persist on later visits.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I've turned on that feature as a test (after the question was posted) and I saw your reply just fine. That's no difference from how it's been before I turned on the feature.

What has never worked for me (I'm not sure if it's a bug or by design) is a notification for a reply to your reply. I only ever see notifications of direct replies, not indirect ones.

In other words, if someone replies directly to me, I know about it, but if someone replies to that reply, I don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I only ever see notifications of direct replies, not indirect ones.

Definitely by design. I do not want to receive a geometrically increasing number of notifications as a comment chain expands underneath my comment.

On reddit (maybe it was the Enhancement Suite) IIRC is an option to Watch a thread, which basically does what you want