Yeah hi that’s me. Forum loudmouth, popularizer of 
, and longtime contributor. I still got this wrong, along with @stevea and @Mateusz_Konieczny who I hope we can agree are “experienced users”. We all made an unholy mess of the originally-linked topic and it’s broken beyond repair. It’s impossible to untangle the discussion that ensued. The format is the problem here, not the users.
What exactly, are we concerned about saving here?
The rest of the forum has the ability to “vote” on replies using the emoji reaction. Having one category default to a different, crippled threading model, with a vote system that re-orders replies, makes no sense. Everyone here is used to how every other category works. What do we gain from making one category different and confusing people for no benefit? Let’s recognize it as a failed experiment, learn from it, and make that category work exactly like every other one on the forum.
And yes @SomeoneElse, on the list of things that matter in OSM, it’s probably even lower on the priority list than adding a reaction, but it’s also something we can can fix easily.