On Hexbear, moderators may factor upvote activity into moderation decisions.
Some users treat upvotes as a “mark as read” function, which weakens score reliability and therefore negatively impacts The Algorithm.
Please provide a separate mechanism for users to identify posts that they have already read, which will persist on later visits.
Yes, but you don’t see new comments, plus this would be for posts and comments. If you just hide a comment, you don’t see new replies. Marking as read is useful.