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3 Post author: FAWS 11 April 2012 03:39AM

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Comment author: Random832 12 April 2012 02:58:54PM 0 points [-]

If you're failing to do that, then the only recourse the rest of us have is to downvote the comment several times so that it is by default hidden from view.

A post only needs a score of -1 to be hidden.

The post currently stands at -12 points, in addition to ongoing punitive serial-downvoting of his (and my) further posts on the issue (most of which both did not mention the spoiler and were hidden under the hidden post).

Comment author: thomblake 12 April 2012 03:05:32PM 1 point [-]

A post only needs a score of -1 to be hidden.

By default, posts with -2 or less are hidden. (I just created a new account to check). I'm pretty sure the default used to be -4.

The post currently stands at -12 points, in addition to ongoing punitive serial-downvoting of his (and my) further posts on the issue (most of which both did not mention the spoiler and were hidden under the hidden post).

That is not relevant to anything I said. People can downvote for whatever reason they want, and should generally do so to mean "I want to see fewer comments like this one".

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 July 2012 03:45:47PM 1 point [-]

By default, comments with a score of -2 are visible and with a score of -3 are hidden. The preferences page is confusing because it uses "below" as a strict inequality. I believe this was the original default, though there may have been something else in the middle.