perhaps you do not remember the early days of spam bots flooding the comment section. If you don't hide it, then vandals will comment with porn and abusive content in the threads of the most popular discussions.
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I see... thanks for the explanation. And, no I was not around during that time so I did not see that. My experience was more with seeing a minnow post something, get several upvotes, then 1 person downvotes it and it is hidden forever... seemed unfair. I understand your reasoning now though. The lesser of 2 evils...
If you look at my reply to your post, there is a perfect example... 4 upvotes and then 1 downvote and the comment is now hidden...
This is not like a democracy where one person has a vote. You have a vested interest. For each share you hold in the platform you have a vote. Unfortunately the troll who flagged you has investment here so his vote is worth more than ours. He is taking revenge on the entire platform since he lost his reputation due to blackmail and other things.
This is something I hope and believe dan and ned are working on.
We need a better way to deal with people who lose their shit because they have nothing to lose after losing everything.
But one from a slightly bigger fish and look you're back :)
Yes, but when you have 5 people who think something is good, and 1 person thinks it is bad and therefore the content gets hidden.... that doesn't seem equitable does it?!