Bit weird that pinning counts as a reply

[taonmatt (Matt Mower)]

I was a little surprised to find a reply on a post I just made and then discovered that pinning it was counted as a reply.

I found out by unpinning it and re-pinning it and found the reply count was now 2.

I found this a bit weird, anyone else? Or explain why it makes sense?

m@

[ondrej]

Hello,
staff actions such as closing, pinning etc… are counted as replies. I think you can hide it via this CSS. This may be annoying in other UX stuff

.small-action {
  display: none;
}
.small-action.time-gap {
  display: block;
}

Or like I do sometimes, I just delete the action made by staff as this deletes the reply

[taonmatt (Matt Mower)]

Hi Ondrej

Thanks for the suggestion although it’s not the reply “stub” that bothers me but the reply count.

My experience was that deleting it didn’t bump down the reply count. And that’s really the issue.

I think that most users, like me, would not think of this as a “reply” and, like me, would then scroll back and forth looking for it.

[dsims (Daniel)]

今天在一个新网站上注意到了这个。在研究代码更改之前，有没有什么原因会让有人想要或期望这些操作被计为回复？

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

您可以编辑它们，并包含文本，这在功能上与回复非常相似，而且我看到它在其他论坛的关闭消息中经常被使用。