in reply to Re^3: Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users.
in thread Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users.

One still needs a ratio or somehow more elaborate heuristic.

A disputed post with +15 -20 is very different from +0 -5

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Re^5: Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users.
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 20, 2017 at 15:37 UTC

    Maybe. We could add a requirement for a minimum number of total votes as well. But that's why I think we could just make the threshold be "very low": A post with a total rep of -20 is clearly "excessively bad" in the view of a critical mass of voters. And remember that this is only for hiding the post; it does not delete it; so we don't have to worry too much about being too aggressive.

    Another point which should be made explicitly, is that this "hidden"ness is dynamically determined. A post could float in and out of that state as the voting goes on. Also, the threshold parameter can easily be tweaked to try to make it more optimal.

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
Re^5: Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users.
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 19, 2017 at 23:05 UTC
    What about overrides? Say a pope janitori does a ++ and and then the -40 reputation sum is irrelevant for hiding?