Timeline for Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, clearer descriptions
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| Mar 3, 2022 at 9:21 | comment | added | Neil | The thing I liked about having deleted answers keep their position is for when as a 10K user you are prompted to refresh the page after an answer is deleted I'm used to the deleted answer staying in the same place on the page (since I default to date sort). I'll have to see whether I find the new behaviour annoying or not; it probably won't happen often enough to make a difference. (Ideally as a 10K user I'd prefer deleted answers to just change colour rather than being "replaced" by the prompt to refresh.) | |
| Mar 2, 2022 at 10:11 | comment | added | Martin R | It seems that deleted answers are sorted last now. Very nice! | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 17:33 | comment | added | TylerH | @AnitaTaylor Thank you for the consideration and for considering the re-sorting of answers as well! | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 16:52 | comment | added | Anita Taylor StaffMod | @TylerH Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm going to consider creating new (10K) dropdown sort options out of scope | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 16:51 | comment | added | Anita Taylor StaffMod | Based on your feedback, we will go ahead and force deleted answers to the bottom of all sorts, as Cris suggested. | |
| Feb 10, 2022 at 16:50 | history | edited | Anita TaylorStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 10, 2022 at 0:18 | comment | added | Clonkex | @AnitaTaylor Personally I don't really see the point to keeping deleted answers mixed in. Then again, I can't see them anyway so it doesn't affect me :P | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 20:23 | comment | added | TylerH |
@AnitaTaylor or to keep it simpler, don't change default sort behavior, and make the new 10K sort options the ones that pin deleted posts to the end, with the tooltip saying, e.g. "moves all deleted answers to the bottom/end of the answers list". Having the label appended with (10K) would make sense in my opinion since only 10k users would find use in that option. Other users will not see deleted posts, so won't need a "10k" option to keep the answers list clean.
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 20:22 | comment | added | TylerH |
@AnitaTaylor I don't see myself ever wanting to see deleted answers sorted in-line where they would be, but for anyone who might, how much trouble/work would it be to have that be yet another sort option or two in the fancy new drop-down menu being implemented, and only make that option visible to 10k users? It could be named the same as the others but with (10K) at the end, and have a tooltip show on hover that says something like "shows deleted answers in order as if they weren't deleted"
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| Feb 9, 2022 at 18:39 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | @AnitaTaylor It is nice to be able to see deleted answers, to see what has happened on a page and so on, but deleted answers are not really part of the page any more, 99.9% of users cannot see them, and so mixing them into the visible answers causes confusion. I can imagine a toggle for "show deleted answers", or a toggle to keep them at the bottom or not, but I doubt that'd be useful. As I see it, if they're always at the bottom, they're easy to find when you need to see them. | |
| Feb 9, 2022 at 16:52 | comment | added | Anita Taylor StaffMod | We are having some internal debate, with some people saying there is value when sorting by date to having the deleted answers mixed in, and others saying there is no reason we shouldn't move them to the bottom like we already do on the Score sort. I get that it is confusing to have different behaviors for different sorts. Does anyone have any strong argument FOR keeping things the way they are? Why? | |
| Feb 8, 2022 at 18:05 | history | answered | Cris Luengo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |