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.
You have the option to hide read posts.
I wouldn’t delete an email to mark it as read. I don’t think hide is sufficiently similar
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.