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

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Comment author: Exetera 06 October 2012 03:42:22AM 2 points [-]

Perhaps a way to make this work would be to automatically unhide downstream comments whose upvotes are greater than the sum of the downvotes of all its negative-karma parents? In that way, a good (ie. high-karma) discussion can't be killed by a low-karma parent thread so easily.