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.
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.