580996 - Ability to hide/obsolete/deprecate (as opposed to highlight) comments by default (user would be able to mark them as 'noise' first)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

There are some cases in which a bug grows in an insane manner with just "spam" bugs (like bug 61098) or with comments that are just a result of an error on the user's part (like bug 569400 comment 47, although maybe Bugzilla should have detected this abnormal quotation too -- be sure to file that as a different bug). So, in a similar vein as bug 259452, there should be a way to hide these comments by default for every user of more than 1 user agrees on marking the comment as "noise".

Comment 1

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

s/"spam" bugs/"spam" comments/

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yeah, agreed. Once we have a system for tagging comments, we can set up a system for hiding comments with certain tags.

Comment 3

[Martin Fleurke]

For me it would be good enough to collapse a comment permanently. 
Since comment is only collapsed, and everyone can expand it again, there is no need to have complex rules to decide if a comment should be hidden. Everyone should be able to collapse or expand a comment that he thinks is (or isn't) noise, permanently, for all users. Every user can expand to check if collapse was justified.

The current collapse mechanism I consider useless, because it is not permanent, and not for all users.

Comment 4

[Oliver Chadenas]

The proposed solution in Comment 3 would be extremely useful.

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

this has been implemented as part of the work on bug 793963.