I don’t see why not. Karma isn’t that important, and if someone is losing or gaining karma because the small number of people that prefer to see dead threads up or downvote them I don’t think it will really change anything. Allowing this to be an optional feature seems like it would be a perfect compromise between people who want to participate in these conversations and moderators who don’t want to see them.
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In principle, we could have different thresholds for the karma penalty to replies and for the removal from Recent Comments.
I don’t see why not. Karma isn’t that important, and if someone is losing or gaining karma because the small number of people that prefer to see dead threads up or downvote them I don’t think it will really change anything. Allowing this to be an optional feature seems like it would be a perfect compromise between people who want to participate in these conversations and moderators who don’t want to see them.