in reply to Hiding Reaped Nodes

Occasionally, the reponse to a reaped node is very well-reasoned and worth reading. (I'm thinking of footpad's response to SexyNun here... of course there, the parent got un-reaped anyway.)

I wouldn't have a problem with this as a user option, but it strikes me as a lot of work for our mighty Supreme Leader, for minimal benefit, since there usually aren't more than a handful of reaped nodes each day.

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Re: Re: Hiding Reaped Nodes
by mischief (Hermit) on Jun 22, 2001 at 18:21 UTC
    I don't think it would be all that much work. I don't know much about the internals of the Everything Engine, but I assume it would be just an extra field in a db table, and putting next unless ($user_settings{'display_reaped_nodes'}) in the loop that shows the list of nodes. 'course, I'm probably very wrong and am about to be scolded for not having read the source...
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      There's already a "show unmoderated content" option in user settings. I suppose the effect of leaving it off is slightly different, but it's hard to see why, if someone doesn't want to see "unmoderated content", they'd want to see reaped nodes.

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        If you have "show unmoderated content" set, you still see the node in the reply list with "This node has been reaped" (or similar; I forget the exact words). I was wondering whether an option might be added to just not show those nodes (or their replies) at all.
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