Just to give people a rough idea of our mod principles:
This post and subsequent comments look, at a quick glance, like it probably would warrant some kind of moderator involvement (at least in the form of gentle nudges), if we had the bandwidth and resources to literally read and moderate everything. As is, when posts are as downvoted as this one ended up being (which means it doesn’t show up on the frontpage or recent discussion), we don’t especially worry about it – figuring that the people who come to a thread like this more or less know what they’re getting into.
(Note: I have not yet read this thread or post in detail, just enough for vague pattern matching)
the people who come to a thread like this more or less know what they’re getting into
That’s true to an extent, but humans are notorious for clicking on web links against their better judgment, and comments here appear in people’s comment histories at least.
Sure, but those are all things you have to go looking for – a pretty low proportion of users look at that.
We do plan to implement a thing where posts in Daily (which is where I think most people will see this thing) that are below N karma don’t show up by default.
Just to give people a rough idea of our mod principles:
This post and subsequent comments look, at a quick glance, like it probably would warrant some kind of moderator involvement (at least in the form of gentle nudges), if we had the bandwidth and resources to literally read and moderate everything. As is, when posts are as downvoted as this one ended up being (which means it doesn’t show up on the frontpage or recent discussion), we don’t especially worry about it – figuring that the people who come to a thread like this more or less know what they’re getting into.
(Note: I have not yet read this thread or post in detail, just enough for vague pattern matching)
That’s true to an extent, but humans are notorious for clicking on web links against their better judgment, and comments here appear in people’s comment histories at least.
Sure, but those are all things you have to go looking for – a pretty low proportion of users look at that.
We do plan to implement a thing where posts in Daily (which is where I think most people will see this thing) that are below N karma don’t show up by default.
I agree that it doesn’t affect many users and didn’t mean to claim it should be a priority.