[estephan500]

Hmm. Can I suggest that the function that turns a negative five rating into an automatic "hide this post" be deleted?

-- in the example that occurred in this thread, the result was absurd...  there is no reason that the comment, whose only vice was in being "much disagreed with" ... should be censored from the view of subsequent visitors

-- In general, that auto-censor function would only make sense if we knew that people only used the down-vote button to mean "this is spam, or pure conversation-killing troll material, or equates to dangerous conduct not speech". ... But people don't use the down button that way, they use it to mean "I emphatically disagree"

-- also, I have often added up votes which wind up mitigating others' down votes. But this feature strangely cuts off the post from subsequent voting, latecomers are out.

[estephan500]

Hmm. Can I suggest that the function that turns a negative five rating into an automatic "hide this post" be deleted?

-- in the example that occurred in this thread, the result was absurd...  there is no reason that the comment, whose only vice was in being "much disagreed with" ... should be censored from the view of subsequent visitors

-- In general, that auto-censor function would only make sense if we knew that people only used the down-vote button to mean "this is spam, or pure conversation-killing troll material, or equates to dangerous conduct not speech". ... But people don't use the down button that way, they use it to mean "I emphatically disagree"

-- also, I have often added up votes which wind up mitigating others' down votes. But this feature strangely cuts off the post from subsequent voting, latecomers are out.