So, at the time of writing, this comment is at -16, which suggests that a lot of us have set our preferences to display all comments regardless of score.

Should we, perhaps, be more trusting of our fellow readers, and actually accept the existence of a threshold below which comments get hidden?

Damn, now I can't decide between downvoting this comment as practice, and upvoting it for giving me an opportunity to practice.

thanks =)

ETA: If somebody's practicing on me too, I'm fine with that, but may I propose a general policy that we are allowed to be polite and, you know, human without random downvotes?

Like others, I want to vote this up and down; you should make another comment saying "tip jar". :-)

Unnecessary and gratuitous. Downvoted. :-)

Obeying. Even though I had some strong reasons to upvote. Edit : you're running for a record there - the most downvoted comment on LW :-)

With -28 points, why is the comment I am responding to not the last top-level one on the page?