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As you noted, comments don't count as "activity" on posts for purposes of bumping. Moderators have access to a list of the most recent comments, and I'd like to explore opening that up as an alter...
#1: Initial revision
by
Monica Cellio
·
2025-05-16T17:53:03Z (about 15 hours ago)
As you noted, comments don't count as "activity" on posts for purposes of bumping. Moderators have access to a list of the most recent comments, and I'd like to explore opening that up as an alternative to what you're asking for. Granted, you'd be seeing comments without their immediate context -- it's a list of comments, and you would have to follow links to see the posts and other comments. I think spam and blatant rudeness is usually visible without that context. If we made this list of recent comments more visible, how visible should it be? (Who should see it?) On the one hand, everything on that page is public already; this is about making it easier to find, not about revealing secrets. On the other hand, it'd be one more thing that draws people away from the main activity of the community, and UX people often counsel against distractions. In an answer to [Deleted post hidden from everyone in the question list](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/292503/293146#answer-293146) I suggested expanding a "moderation tools" section in the sidebar column to add the "recent deletions" link for people who can see deleted posts. I mentioned there that this could evolve to also show flags to curators. I wasn't thinking about comments at the time, but it seems like that could fit in here too. If we took this approach, the existing mod/admin-only widget would expand to look something like this:  The heading is changed from "Moderator Tools" to just "Tools", with (now) four links that can appear depending on your abilities: - Recent Comments (new, per this proposal) - Recent Deletions (shown to those with the Curate ability, per the linked proposal) - Moderator Tools (existing link shown to moderators) - Admin Tools (existing link shown to administrators) In the future there could be another curator link for flags, or maybe at that point we would spin off a "curator tools" page like we have for mod tools and admin tools. (There are currently 9 mod tools and 13 admin tools, which is why there are separate pages.) Would something like this help? Would it cause other problems? If we did this, who should see the "Recent Comments" link -- anyone who can flag, or something more limited? At what point in the user journey do we want to start inviting people to do this kind of reviewing?