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UI: Subtract bot comments from comment count #1023

Open UmBottesWillen opened 4 weeks ago

UmBottesWillen commented 4 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Comments made by bots under threads are currently treated the same as comments made by user accounts. This may lead to confusion and disappointment for users that expect to engage with a comment under a thread and unwarranted hostility towards bots.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like to see a change in the UI that signifies that there are comments made by bots under a thread, as well as deducting the number of comments made by bots from the number of total comments, shown when looking at the thread panel from a feed.

Additional context The media bias check bot, that is active in communities like world@lemmy.world, is currently often downvoted, even though it provides, in my opinion, important and sourced information about the news site quoted in the thread. I think this is due to the fact that the bot is the first and often only comment under new threads. People that open the thread in the hopes of engaging with the comment under the tread are irritated by the fact that this comment was not created by a user, but a bot. Indictaing to those users before they open the tread, that there are comments made by bots and subtracting the amount of comments made by bots from the total amount of comments would help to alleviate this irritation that I perceive to be haplening.

BentiGorlich commented 4 weeks ago

So there is no "bot" badge next to them?

UmBottesWillen commented 4 weeks ago

There is, but, and I am sorry if I didn't manage to make that clear, I am not talking about looking at the comments of a thread, but at a list of threads when visiting a community (e.g. https://fedia.io/m/world@lemmy.world ). The top thread, at the time of writing, is listed as having 2 comments. When you open the thread, you see that one of these comments is a bot.

When looking at the list of threads from the community/magazine view, the user is not informed about the fact that part of/all comments a thread might currently have, are comments made by bots. The user might click on a thread to read the comment they thought was made by another user, but find out that the comment was made by a bot. They expect to find a reaction to the topic of the thread, but find none. That is the (small) issue I was trying to adress. I hope this makes it clearer what I was trying to achieve.

BentiGorlich commented 4 weeks ago

Ah ok, so you mean the comment count in the list view. So you'd like to see a 3 comments (1 from a bot)?

UmBottesWillen commented 4 weeks ago

Yes, that would be one way of implementing my request. I personally was thinking more about 2 comments *, with the * indicating that some comments were not counted.

But the implementation detail I'd leave up to you.