Where exactly do you want these posts to be "marked"? ... ?

And in case of root nodes

... ?

Discipulus suggestion about font size is here and I further elaborated about the already available CSS classes like .nnt-line-minusminus for RAT

The IMHO easiest implementation might be adding one (or several) more CSS class reflecting "worstness".

The actual default behavior - at least for anonymous visitors - could be left to the default style and any logged in user could choose to override it in his stylesheet settings.

possible changes could effect

and could be easily maintained and adjusted later, for instance for differing tastes or design changes.

Would this fit your requirements?

EDIT

see also Re: Blocking users for a proof of concept

UPDATE

Plus: A voluntary revealing could be easily implemented in JS

Minus: search engines would still see the content.

Summary: Not a replacement for Reaping, just a more flexible parallel mechanism which doesn't cause interference with consideration.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

°) here a pic I might choose in my settings ;-)

In reply to Re: Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users. (CSS class) by LanX
in thread Feature: Auto hide. Change: show node vote counts to all, not just logged in users. by marto

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