Option to remove filtered replies

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The discussion revolves around the option to remove filtered replies in Discourse. baseball_inferno suggests having an option to toggle filtered replies on and off, as they find them annoying but understand their usefulness to others. codinghorror and baseball_inferno clarify that this is a feature controlled by Discourse, not individual sites. ondrej proposes adding a checkbox in the interface preferences to disable filtered replies, providing an image of what this could look like. codinghorror notes that this feature will not be default-on and is currently only enabled for testing purposes.

I’m getting a bit annoyed of them, I like to see other posts around a reply to an above post, but I see how they can be useful to some people, so I think an option to have them on and off would be nice.

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Do you mean here or somewhere else? I believe this is a site setting.

I had originally made a request on the site for this to have an option to be disabled, however was told that this is on discourse’ end.

When the site setting is enabled there is now way to stop replies from not collapsing when filtered. It depends how you feel about it. For me, the fact that replies collapse when filtered is good as you can clearly see where and what the reply is. However, I understand that this isn’t going to be liked by everyone. Perhaps a little checkbox in preferences > interface that says

Disable filtered replies

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This is definitely not going to be a default-on feature. I believe it is on here only for testing correct @sam?

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