Just like with Reddit, there is always some jackass who cannot resist the urge to post threadcrap, as we see in the linked thread.
Sometimes we don’t want a thread of clowns. We want sophisticated intellectuals, not children, to generate an insightful and thought-provoking comments.
So how can the tools be made to accommodate?
comment removal is tyrannical
Lemmy has a blunt Elon-style chainsaw: comment removal. WTF.. can’t we be more intelligent than this? It’s exreme, yet exclusively reserved for the moderator. It serves a good purpose, but it’s not a good way to deal with clowns whose content does not qualify as spam.
Let the clowns have their say, but it should not clutter or detract from articulate chatter.
voting does not work
No, voting is not the fix. It’s shitty at making that separation b/c votes reflect emotion, not articulation. Intelligent discussion is relatively boring to most people and does not trigger emotion, so it gets buried under garbage.
Give me a thread-splitting option
The OP tags comments that don’t have a shred of intelligence (like those in the linked thread). But let’s not censor them. Let the clowns have their fun. Those tagged comments get put into a separate branch, accessible to everyone by clicking on a clown head. The default thread remains unpolluted with trash.
Its not censorship when someone who controls a space manages that space.
If I kick you out of my home because I don't like what you say (or vice-versa), that's not censorship.
I say this as someone who thinks many mods are overly heavy handed.