Re: Proposal: Nuke negative comments

Rowan Tommins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.documentation.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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,

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Rowan Tommins
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