Whilst I applaud the desire -- its one I've long held; and attempted by other means -- and especially your effort; I can't help but think: too little, too late.

To address the "Too little" part; I think any posts 'judged' -- by whatever mechanism is chosen -- to require 'some action', should be pre-fixed and post-fixed with a banner reading:

Warning: This post has been judged by the Community to be of low value; which means it could be misleading or outright incorrect. Treat accordingly!

And I think it should be applied to posts regardless of whether the viewer is logged in or not. Just because someone bothers to sign up and log in, does not mean they should be expected to have the requisite knowledge to discern pertinent posts from sundialisms.

And yes, I am very aware this will catch many of my own posts, including some recent ones that I believe gained their reps for the 'wrong reasons' -- ie. political rather than technical. So be it.

For the 'too late' part; it speaks for itself.

In reply to Re: RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors by BrowserUk
in thread RFC: Hide Very Bad Answers From Visitors by jdporter

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.