Yes, that one in particular was what made me post finally to figure out how the terminology for these forums actually work, and how to fix the settings so they were roughly usable, in this case, it created the somewhat silly situation where my own reply to a good answer or question was the 'highest rated', which meant that it appeared above the actual answers, which made no sense at all in that context.

Stackoverflow does this but in that context, it's very rare for a user to post a reply as a posting, not a comment, and answers are basically answers, so it's not a very good example to emulate in a forum context like this, where you can have discussions and develop ideas until you got what you needed. Stackoverflow also doesn't hide stuff by default (except in their comments, where it's pretty much equally annoying as a default, that assumes that popularity reflects the best comment, which is not always the case, often isn't in fact), so you know the context of each answer and comments below replies and posts.

Anyway, I've done web stuff for decades, but rule one is make things clear and obvious to users who don't already know the site and logic, but Perl is a bit different so I can see the desire to be different, so that's whatever, but as far usability goes, probably not the best idea in the world.

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