Thread:Feedback/Delete thread/Gmaxwell

A hide / unhide button sounds okay. If you adopted my suggestion for an inconspicuous notification of modified messages (I suggested a number as part of the history link) then the presence of hidden messages could be signaled in the same way.

Though I don't know if a hide/unhide button solves the thread deleting case… since there wouldn't be much of any place to hang the notice. I, and others, have said there is a need to promote/demote threads: I.e. "regardless of how active this is, this should be kept fairly visible" and "regardless of how active this is, it should be made less visible"... if we had that we could just remove threads by demoting them, blanking+demoting them, or failing that— (sysop)deleting them.

Would hiding a (new) message unthrob the new-messages indicator? One of the social purposes of message removal and thread hiding is that it discourages dead-horse-beating without actually prohibiting activity. I suspect that would be lost if everyone who commented on the thread had already been alerted to the new message. Stuff to think about.