2012-12-10, 10:28 AM
MuscleWizard Wrote:I think it was for things you didn't want people who weren't registered to see. Can we replace hide reply with hide registered?
That's exactly what it was not for, and one of the idiotic ways people were using it that made it a spammy abusive mess.
The whole hide thing was part of a suite of hiding tags with various options. I didn't actually want any of them, but extended the suite to add our own hide-vote with intentions to add the hide-opinion at some point rather than reinventing the wheel. hide reply just happened to be the one tag from the suite that i thought might be usable by others and didn't disable. It's intended value was to be used in speakeasy and similar situations where you discuss something, and give you own opinion about it but don't want anyone to see your opinion portion unless/until they've also given theirs, that way they reply to the question/idea/answer first, not your opinion of it. What it became is a spammy game of content hide and seek. ergo, out the window with it.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.