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Comment by samuell | Hacker News Reader

TIL one can collapse HN threads. With all the clear labels on HN, perhaps a [collapse] link would have been clearer.

Were you never curious about what the little [-] did? Where's your sense of adventure! I rib you, but at the same time I understand and your idea has merit.

Not the person you're asking, but I thought the [-] acted as a downvote button and hid the offending content at the same time.

If it isn't, why do some controversial comments get into a lighter font?

Once you get a certain level of karma you get the ability to downvote comments - lighter font means people downvoted it

You unlock the ability to downvote posts and comments at 500 karma points I believe

Comments yes, posts no. Post downvoting either does not exist or has much higher karma threshold.

You can flag posts, though.

I might have used it at some time, but must have forgot it since then. I now find it super useful to be able to collapse long threads, to see what others have posted :D

>Account created in 2013

Are you joking?

> Account created in 2013

Which means that, when the parent poster started using this site, these Javascript-only thread collapsing buttons didn't exist (I took a quick look at archive.org to confirm). Since these buttons are so subtle, it is plausible that the parent poster didn't notice when they appeared.

~no, they are samuell~ Jokes aside, it probably may not have been the most intuitive way.

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