The threshold ought to be a user preference. I might consider starting to have a policy of upvoting all comments currently at −4 or lower (except stuff I would delete if I were an admin, i.e. obvious spam, disclosures of confidential information, and the like) until it is made into one.
If so, then definitely of the ‘opt-out’ kind with the current behavior as the default. Making the (at least reasonably likely to be) trashy conversations invisible to new users is one of the most important goals of the feature.
The threshold ought to be a user preference. I might consider starting to have a policy of upvoting all comments currently at −4 or lower (except stuff I would delete if I were an admin, i.e. obvious spam, disclosures of confidential information, and the like) until it is made into one.
If so, then definitely of the ‘opt-out’ kind with the current behavior as the default. Making the (at least reasonably likely to be) trashy conversations invisible to new users is one of the most important goals of the feature.
Downvoted comments were already collapsed by default.