Proposal: Nuke negative comments

Hello, Docsians.

There are currently tens of thousands of comments in the docs.  Most are of dubious value, but occasionally some are useful to fold into the doc page before deleting.  I and others do so periodically, but it's all ad hoc and not especially efficient.  One of the issues is that determining if a comment is of any use is a subjective human task.

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.  That would remove many thousands of comments from the docs, and give us a better sense of what pages have the highest number of potentially-useful comments worth trying to manually review, merge, prune, etc.

This could be done manually through the admin UI, but as I said, "many thousands."  Would someone with server access be able to just nuke any negative-score comments from orbit?

Anyone object, before we track down someone with the nuclear codes?

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  Larry Garfield
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