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2 questions:

  1. How do we flag a comment as a quality contribution? Back on Reddit we'd do that through the reporting system, but there's no clear way to do it on this site.

  2. What does the "block user" feature do? I remember that causing a lot of issues back on Reddit, and I'm kind of surprised to see return here.

How do we flag a comment as a quality contribution? Back on Reddit we'd do that through the reporting system, but there's no clear way to do it on this site.

Still the reporting system! Type "quality contribution" or something like that in, we'll figure it out. This is not the way we plan for this to work long-term, it's just what we have available.

What does the "block user" feature do? I remember that causing a lot of issues back on Reddit, and I'm kind of surprised to see return here.

It was part of the codebase before and we haven't gotten around to changing it; I need to do a Meta post that includes this issue and ask for feedback on proposed solutions.

Right now it works similarly to how Reddit blocking works, I believe.

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