Mark_Friedenbach comments on Open Thread for January 8 - 16 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 07:17:25AM 0 points [-]

One way this is often addressed is replacing downvote with flag, and with enough flags it gets hidden (flags and upvotes aren't inverses of each other).

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 11 January 2014 09:58:25AM 1 point [-]

That doesn't seem to scale well with the number of readers. Some discussions attract more people than others; so in the less popular discussions almost nothing would be flagged, but in the more popular ones, any slightly controversial comment would be flagged.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 January 2014 05:37:00PM 0 points [-]

You are assuming a fixed cutoff which I was not.