Or an x10 downvote hammer granted by admins to community members they know personally and reasonably well, regardless of karma—an automatic karma threshold rewards volume of commenting, rather than average sanity of comments.
Unfortunately, this suggestion, like so many other good ideas, requires programming resources.
Unfortunately, this suggestion, like so many other good ideas, requires programming resources.
It doesn’t in a strict sense, establishing a protocol for this decisions to be enacted in comments is sufficient. Given a wiki page that describes the protocol and lists people authorized to vote, any of them can create a top-level comment with words “Vote to hide”, link to the wiki page, and possibly an argument. Others can reply to the comment to second/third the suggestion. A rule such as ((Post Karma - (number of votes to hide) * 10) < −20, and Post Karma is less than 10) then decides whether a moderator bans the post. The whole voting thing can even be made invisible to non-moderators, if all comments in it are hidden right after being posted.
Or an x10 downvote hammer granted by admins to community members they know personally and reasonably well, regardless of karma—an automatic karma threshold rewards volume of commenting, rather than average sanity of comments.
Unfortunately, this suggestion, like so many other good ideas, requires programming resources.
It doesn’t in a strict sense, establishing a protocol for this decisions to be enacted in comments is sufficient. Given a wiki page that describes the protocol and lists people authorized to vote, any of them can create a top-level comment with words “Vote to hide”, link to the wiki page, and possibly an argument. Others can reply to the comment to second/third the suggestion. A rule such as ((Post Karma - (number of votes to hide) * 10) < −20, and Post Karma is less than 10) then decides whether a moderator bans the post. The whole voting thing can even be made invisible to non-moderators, if all comments in it are hidden right after being posted.
I don’t think anyone would use a system that cumbersome in real life.