We could hide downvoted posts from “recent posts” (make them available only to those who already know the url) and hide downvoted comments from “recent comments”. And hide all children of downvoted posts/comments from “recent comments” too. That would discourage feeding.
Why? We already automatically collapse downvoted comments along with all their children, to discourage people from writing more comments in these threads. My proposal has similar intent.
Because there are many valuable discussions that have happened to occur below one downvoted comment. I do not desire any additional penalties to those comments. Deal with the problem of trolls by some other more direct mechanism.
I want to have a possibility to see all recent posts without knowing the specific url, if only to be able to find it easily if I want to look at the comments at some later moment. But I agree that it may be useful to have an option to switch the display of downvoted posts off, analogously to how it works for comments. It should even be the default setting.
We could hide downvoted posts from “recent posts” (make them available only to those who already know the url) and hide downvoted comments from “recent comments”. And hide all children of downvoted posts/comments from “recent comments” too. That would discourage feeding.
Undesired side effect.
Why? We already automatically collapse downvoted comments along with all their children, to discourage people from writing more comments in these threads. My proposal has similar intent.
Because there are many valuable discussions that have happened to occur below one downvoted comment. I do not desire any additional penalties to those comments. Deal with the problem of trolls by some other more direct mechanism.
Hiding downvoted posts is already available as an individual preference, which lots of people have turned off. Do not want.
I want to have a possibility to see all recent posts without knowing the specific url, if only to be able to find it easily if I want to look at the comments at some later moment. But I agree that it may be useful to have an option to switch the display of downvoted posts off, analogously to how it works for comments. It should even be the default setting.