So basically classic Reddit. Let the votes matter. Let people decide a down vote threshold (hide posts for me below x number.)
And let all of us who want to see the show put that threshold to negative Infinity and let’s have some gosh dang fun!?
I’m kind of thinking it’s only a matter of time until someone incorporates the mod log and just reintegrates those messages into a continuous comment hierarchy. Kind of like how pie fed incorporates multiple instances into a single comment tree.
Why the extra steps? Comments are never really deleted you can go look them up. Seems pedantically silly.
It’s a matter of the effort it takes to vandalize a community versus the effort to maintain it. Different communities have different thresholds for various things, of course. And, the more obscure a community, the less frequently it is vandalized, and the simpler moderation can be.
Classic reddit worked when it was small. Then subreddits, mostly to categorize, were added when it got larger. Then dedicated subreddit moderators were eventually needed and communities grew around subreddits. And then rules about invading subreddits were needed, and so on.
What’s wrong with vandalism?
(My instance supports anarchists.)
My hypothetical bot army just down voted all your comments below the threshold, all your comments are deleted now.
You don’t have a problem with that?
This is a good example. Most spaces, (virtually all spaces) will consider that a form of vandalism. A similar but even more extreme example is a spam bot posting thousands of links to scam websites.
Some might be fine with that, and that’s up to each community. Some security honeypot-style communities probably benefit from allowing spam, for example.
