This still doesn’t answer the question: why isn’t down voting good enough? I’d rather rely mostly on community moderation rather than a few specialized moderators.
As a side note, perhaps users with sufficiently negative karma should have their comments hidden by default?
The main issue isn’t that downvoting isn’t good enough but that we don’t want to terribly damage the signal to noise ratio. Thus, we don’t want massive amounts of spam or trolling in threads, even if it has been downvoted. But this argument is fairly weak. If users could be banned without having comments deleted that would solve the primary problem.
This still doesn’t answer the question: why isn’t down voting good enough? I’d rather rely mostly on community moderation rather than a few specialized moderators.
As a side note, perhaps users with sufficiently negative karma should have their comments hidden by default?
The main issue isn’t that downvoting isn’t good enough but that we don’t want to terribly damage the signal to noise ratio. Thus, we don’t want massive amounts of spam or trolling in threads, even if it has been downvoted. But this argument is fairly weak. If users could be banned without having comments deleted that would solve the primary problem.