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18 Post author: Wei_Dai 05 October 2012 07:23AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 October 2012 06:52:47PM *  12 points [-]

The threshold ought to be a user preference. I might consider starting to have a policy of upvoting all comments currently at -4 or lower (except stuff I would delete if I were an admin, i.e. obvious spam, disclosures of confidential information, and the like) until it is made into one.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2012 07:41:05PM 6 points [-]

The threshold ought to be a user preference.

If so, then definitely of the 'opt-out' kind with the current behavior as the default. Making the (at least reasonably likely to be) trashy conversations invisible to new users is one of the most important goals of the feature.

Comment author: thomblake 08 October 2012 08:18:25PM 2 points [-]

If so, then definitely of the 'opt-out' kind with the current behavior as the default.

Downvoted comments were already collapsed by default.