in reply to RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors

I want to vote against this. If I make a post stating my opinion about something that the whole world disagrees with, then I also want the whole world to see it.

Let's say I would be a vegetarian and would say 'Don't kill those poor animals' on a foodie forum with mostly meat eating son's of a bitches that are all going to vote me down for calling them that. So what would the outside world see when my opinion gets brushed away? That's right, to the outside world it will look like the forum is only for people who eat meat.

PS: I'm not a vegetarian

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Re^2: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors
by LanX (Saint) on Jul 27, 2018 at 00:06 UTC
    I understand your point, but we are all guests here. And it's the duty of the hosts to keep the house clean, at least from the outside.

    If others want to read "disputed" sub-trees, they can simply log in.

    If you want your opinion to be legible to the world, buy web-space (or endure the side costs of so called social networks)

    NB: We always had REAPED nodes (AFAIR) and it didn't hinder you collaborating here. This new approach is just a much weaker, but more flexible version of it. And nobody said it's perfect and can't be improved in the future ...

    Cheers Rolf
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