Re: Proposal: Nuke negative comments

On 10/05/2022 19:21, Larry Garfield wrote:

However, doc comments do have up/down votes on them. While they are also of dubious value, I think it's a reasonable assumption to make that any comments that have negative totals are worthless and we can safely get rid of them without human intervention.

I think the principle is sound, but suggest refining the criteria slightly, just to avoid the crowd-sourced nature of the votes themselves causing us problems. For instance, set the threshold slightly lower (e.g. score <= -5, rather than score <= -1) and maybe keep those with "mixed reviews" (e.g. 25 upvotes and 30 downvotes may indicate something's going on that's worth reviewing). Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]