Ability for OP to pin comments to the top of the comment thread
(not actually sure about this—could have bad negative consequences)
Use case: I write a post about a project and a team member makes a comment that I want to make sure people see, or I make an update comment
Ways to reduce risk:
If the OP of the post is in good standing karma-wise, or has X karma (100+? 1000+) they should be able to pin certain comments.
People can still filter by the existing filters and ignore the pins
Why not just edit the post itself? I think sometimes people won’t notice extra things that are added into the body of a post, but they would notice comments.
Case against: if there is good criticism of the post, it may get buried under pinned comments.
Ability for OP to pin comments to the top of the comment thread
(not actually sure about this—could have bad negative consequences)
Use case: I write a post about a project and a team member makes a comment that I want to make sure people see, or I make an update comment
Ways to reduce risk:
If the OP of the post is in good standing karma-wise, or has X karma (100+? 1000+) they should be able to pin certain comments.
People can still filter by the existing filters and ignore the pins
Why not just edit the post itself? I think sometimes people won’t notice extra things that are added into the body of a post, but they would notice comments.
Case against: if there is good criticism of the post, it may get buried under pinned comments.
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ve added it to our list for triage.