Comment 34342

By A Smith (anonymous) | Posted October 01, 2009 at 16:19:54

Ryan >> Your comments do not get voted down because they are unpopular. They get voted down because they use rude and insulting language, are needlessly inflammatory, seek to provoke an emotional reaction from others, are attempts to disrupt and derail the discussion, and abuse evidence and reasoning to defend an unjustifiable conclusion.

Fact: Registered users can press the down vote button for ANY reason, regardless of your guidelines.

Fact: Registered users already have the ability to block comments that the majority deems unworthy.

Ryan >> Registered RTH users already have the option of setting a comment threshold in their user profiles so that comments with a score below the threshold are hidden by default; but most site visitors read articles anonymously, so this feature does not help them.

Ryan, in what way does allowing the majority to erase comments help anonymous users?

Do you believe that the majority is more correct than the minority simply because they are in the majority?

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