You decided. Hiding wins. It ships in the next update. Round two is closed. 228 votes. Replace it with hiding: 122 votes, 54 percent. Keep deletion: 91 votes, 40 percent. Abstain: 15 votes, 7 percent. Among expressed votes, hiding takes 57 percent. A 14 point gap, twice the abstentions. This is not too close to call. The safeguard stays in its box. You decided. We execute. What ships. An author can collapse a comment on their own post. The comment is marked as hidden by the author. Anyone can expand it and read it. Nothing is destroyed. The record stays intact. It arrives in the next update. What happens to deletion. Deletion stays live until that update. Turning off protection before its replacement exists would leave authors alone under a pile-on. The day hiding ships, deletion goes. One switch, no gap. Comments deleted under the old rule stay deleted. Rules do not apply backwards. To the 40 percent. You voted for protection. You did not lose it. Hiding still clears your thread. Moderation still handles harassment, spam and illegal content, under published rules, with a right of appeal. What changes is one thing. Relief no longer requires erasure. What happened here. Round one, deletion led 44 to 28. No majority. The third option left the ballot, and we told its voters: this round is yours to decide. They decided. We asked you to vote for everyone, not for yourselves. You chose the option that leaves a visible mark over the one that erases silently. You chose the record. A feature decided by the people who use it. We said @eYou would work like this. Now it has. Good evening, friends. Jass & @Grégoire Vigroux




