Another vote for option four. I like the addition that as well as community admin/journal owners being able to flag a comment, the commenter themselves should be able to. I could have used the ability to self-flag something yesterday. :)
I can't decide if the warning should be generic (comment titles being enough to indicate why a comment might be flagged as collapsed), or whether you'd want the overhead of an additional content warning field. Probably the latter, since other comments agree with that. I'm not so sure about a comment cut tag, it's a good idea, but it feels like separate functionality, plus it's very much within the sphere of the original commenter, rather than a tool that the community admin/journal owner can use for moderation.
Sub note, the original emphasis is for external moderation, which might make this comment moot, but if it's extended to self-moderation (eg, I'm flagging this comment as triggery, so people can read it in a controlled manner) I assume that this functionality would also need to extend to e-mail and inbox notifications, as well as comment pages themselves.
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I can't decide if the warning should be generic (comment titles being enough to indicate why a comment might be flagged as collapsed), or whether you'd want the overhead of an additional content warning field. Probably the latter, since other comments agree with that. I'm not so sure about a comment cut tag, it's a good idea, but it feels like separate functionality, plus it's very much within the sphere of the original commenter, rather than a tool that the community admin/journal owner can use for moderation.
Sub note, the original emphasis is for external moderation, which might make this comment moot, but if it's extended to self-moderation (eg, I'm flagging this comment as triggery, so people can read it in a controlled manner) I assume that this functionality would also need to extend to e-mail and inbox notifications, as well as comment pages themselves.