So this probably actually isn’t true any more because of the login thing, so upon reflection I don’t endorse the claim. But there’s a person who was creating numerous fake accounts, all posting that exact message over and over again, which was (among other things) showing up on the Recent Comments thread.
My first thought had been “it should take more than one downvote to make a comment disappear” (and many people have Karma strength of 5), so this new policy was basically a one-hit KO. My thought after seeing how many copies of this one obvious-intended-to-offensive-for-its-own-sake thought was “okay, nvm, we at least temporarily need it to be possible to one-hit-KO these things until we get a better solution.”
But, hopefully, the other changes introduced in this patch probably mostly solve that problem.
Sorry, could you explain, for those of us who haven’t figured it out? Why is –5 the correct threshold…?
Edit: I followed the link, but I don’t feel enlightened :(
So this probably actually isn’t true any more because of the login thing, so upon reflection I don’t endorse the claim. But there’s a person who was creating numerous fake accounts, all posting that exact message over and over again, which was (among other things) showing up on the Recent Comments thread.
My first thought had been “it should take more than one downvote to make a comment disappear” (and many people have Karma strength of 5), so this new policy was basically a one-hit KO. My thought after seeing how many copies of this one obvious-intended-to-offensive-for-its-own-sake thought was “okay, nvm, we at least temporarily need it to be possible to one-hit-KO these things until we get a better solution.”
But, hopefully, the other changes introduced in this patch probably mostly solve that problem.