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I really think that GitHub needs better tools to deal with this, this is very frustrating - the only options right now are deleting a ton of comments or locking it preventing all discussion. Prompting people with a modal informing them what comments are inappropriate would go a long way.

In the past you would create a few mailing lists; I think sourceforge automatically did that for you too.

They should have locked the thread or use a wiki page for this. A wiki page is less likely to be edited to add this kind of comment or at least it would be easier to clean up with a bot.

Team internally we introduce `+1 by XYZ` labels exactly for this reason

It's surprising that Github doesnt provide "approval" as a native feature

me too

... :)

OH COME ON, IT WAS A JOKE, MODS.

Looks like people don't get it. Or maybe they have a different view on what's funny. In any case, commenting about downvotes just attracts more downvotes.

Just to clarify: Downvotes are made by other users who have hit a certain karma treshold. No moderators involved.

I appreciate that the voting keeps the conversation from devolving into a competition for laughs. But, sometimes it seems that HN has no sense of humor whatsoever.