I wonder if we would benefit from something like a system that hides the karma (and treats it as zero for visibility purposes) of posts that have less than <some quantity> of engagement. That way posts would get a “grace period” before getting hidden.
The potential cost there is that there are occasionally some really bad posts that deserve the rapid downvote—such as those that don’t respect important Forum norms, even if not quite to the point of formal moderator action. In those cases, the hail of downvotes allows the Forum to deal with those quickly and without moderator action that could be seen as “censoring” someone. But maybe those kinds of posts are rare enough to incur the cost.
I wonder if we would benefit from something like a system that hides the karma (and treats it as zero for visibility purposes) of posts that have less than <some quantity> of engagement. That way posts would get a “grace period” before getting hidden.
The potential cost there is that there are occasionally some really bad posts that deserve the rapid downvote—such as those that don’t respect important Forum norms, even if not quite to the point of formal moderator action. In those cases, the hail of downvotes allows the Forum to deal with those quickly and without moderator action that could be seen as “censoring” someone. But maybe those kinds of posts are rare enough to incur the cost.