On Hexbear, moderators may factor upvote activity into moderation decisions.
Some users treat upvotes as a “mark as read” function, which weakens score reliability and therefore negatively impacts The Algorithm.
Please provide a separate mechanism for users to identify posts that they have already read, which will persist on later visits.
I wouldn't delete an email to mark it as read. I don’t think hide is sufficiently similar
Yes, but you don't see new comments, plus this would be for posts and comments. If you just hide a comment, you don't see new replies. Marking as read is useful.
Well, I've turned on that feature as a test (after the question was posted) and I saw your reply just fine. That's no difference from how it's been before I turned on the feature.
What has never worked for me (I'm not sure if it's a bug or by design) is a notification for a reply to your reply. I only ever see notifications of direct replies, not indirect ones.
In other words, if someone replies directly to me, I know about it, but if someone replies to that reply, I don't.
