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I mean in general, to make less evident bad content.

> Otherwise it's PM policy not to reveal the other votes before you voted yourself.

This is not exactly true infact, as you said Worst Nodes Monthly Best and Weekly Best if not giving the number of votes, already show something on nodes you didnt voted yet.

In the same way, and probably more effective, lowering the fonts for nodes below -1 can be something useful for newcomers and unwary: imagine reading a long thread and having all the flame, the polemic and the nonsense with smaller fonts.. ahh noise reduction!

L*

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Re^4: Let's Make PerlMonks Great Again! -- font size
by LanX (Saint) on May 05, 2018 at 02:44 UTC
    I like your idea more and more to make negative posts gradually "disappear".

    That is making the font smaller for logged in users and hiding the content for the rest of the world.

    Probably with a message saying "the content of this post is disputed"

    As soon as the regulars are not afraid anymore that a bad post could be taken too seriously by newcomers they'd probably stop correcting/feeding it.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re^4: Let's Make PerlMonks Great Again! -- font size
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 24, 2017 at 02:36 UTC

    There's also reply ordering, which essentially achieves the same goal as what you want, by pushing the "worse" nodes down.

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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      Hello jdporter and thanks for the attention,

      Personally I never used this feature and for sure is not used by newcomers and surely cannot be used when browsing anonymously the site.

      The reply ordering is yet another thing in PM that make almost evident better nodes, so the cited policy aimed to conceal reputation of nodes you not voted is already full of exceptions: never read about this policy anyway; it is implicitly derived from the behaviour of the voting system, not a policy.

      As you taken the time to answer can you tell me if an automatic font decrease as I described is implementable?

      thanks

      L*

      There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
      Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.
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        > for sure is not used by newcomers

        It's now the default ordering. See Tidings around Jul 07, 2015.

        ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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Re^4: Let's Make PerlMonks Great Again! -- font size
by LanX (Saint) on May 24, 2017 at 14:49 UTC
    OK now it's clearer for me, you were not talking about Recently Active Threads but about the view of a post + all descendants.

    again there are CSS classes you can manipulate there on your own.

    Things like <div class="pmsig-174111"> for the message and <tr class="reply-body pmnote-961" bgcolor="ffffff"> for the author.

    So you are free to mark each message or author in the way you like.

    If someone was providing a JSON list of worst nodes you could even do what you want in JS using a XML_HTTP_request as a nodelet-hack.

    There is also an XML interface to read Worst Nodes, but with the downside that you won't necessarily see older worst nodes (like from yesterday)

    (I actually use a XML to JSON parser for such a ticker)

    Cheers Rolf
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