Option for mods to remove all child comments when removing a comment.

[kaiser1245]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

Modding post comment threads which have devolved into flame wars can be time consuming. Generally, if a comment thread devolves into an argument, mods must lock the comment section and remove the thread one post at a time.

Describe the solution you'd like.

Option to remove all child comments when removing a parent. If a user has started a flame war, it would greatly reduce the time it takes to moderate that thread if mods could simple remove all the child comments of the offending comment.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

locking comments and manually removing all comments involved in an argument/flame war one at a time, then unlocking comments.

Additional context

No response

[Nutomic]

This can be implemented with a new parameter RemoveComment.recursive. Comment::remove needs to take the same recursive param, and filter comments to delete similar to the way comment_view.rs filters by parent_path.

[aeharding]

Worth noting this should probably ignore mod/admin comments, or at least have a configurable option to ignore those.

edit for keyboards: comment nuke