so they had somehow activated a setting that enabled a premature collapsing the comment threads.
so even when there were only 2 comments on a question, they got displayed already collapsed; highly atypical as to how it looks on any other question, usually.
I know the _move to chat feature_, and it was not that: as I have said, it got activated when only 2 comments were on two different answers correspondingly; I mean, I still have a comment on the accepted answer too. But even that was displayed already collapsed / hidden, after the second comment.
And I don't mean the person who deleted their answer, I mean someone else, with way higher rep.
The premature comment collapsing happened only on this post: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/q/171534/125897 And it's not more apparent any more, because more comments had accumulated since then.
But, let's leave this detail; I just wanted to ask, whether an extreme high rep user has various tools to "silence me" on this stack, and if yes, how could it be kept in check, and let me have my voice heard.
None that I am aware of, only two users have many of the tag gold badges and I'm one of them, yet even those wouldn't be able to do what you're saying.
(I don't want to get sabotaged by some high rep person who disagrees with my values.)
Okay, that sounds reassuring. Thank you very much for your time; I will keep an eye on it, and hope for improvements. Thank you again :) See you on the site...
