I do not intend that the reasons for down-voting should be debated here. However, in my view it *is* pertinent to consider the fact that nodes can be down-voted both in accordance with and not in accordance with the guidelines that are published. Unfortunately, those are not always followed and some posts accrue a slew of downvotes based on something else, such as, as mentioned earlier, antipathy towards the poster.

Therefore I am opposed to any automated system that would determine, in the absence of consideration by a human Monk, whether a post should or should not be displayed to viewers and/or search engines, based solely on down-votes cast.

update: added clarification


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^3: Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users. by 1nickt
in thread Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users. by marto

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