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I think the better solution would be to add an option to hide posts with "x" downvotes.

We don't currently have a way to have customized views for every user and to handle the traffic scale that NS gets. There's some fundamental engineering groundwork that would need to be laid to do this.

The easier way to handle this with our current setup would be in greying out / hiding posts that get too high of a downvote to upvote ratio globally.

If it was a global hide, its much easier.

MousseauI think the better solution would be to add an option to hide posts with "x" downvotes.

I dont really like that... i most would agree that if you make a post with that many downvotes should stay so the poster is humiliated. Kinda like the reasoning for not being able to edit posts

.Hugo.I dont really like that... i most would agree that if you make a post with that many downvotes should stay so the poster is humiliated. Kinda like the reasoning for not being able to edit posts

It wouldn't get deleted or anything -- I'm thinking more along the lines of giving you the option to hide/unhide the junk.

Sometimes the downvoted posts are great though.

It's more the people that get on their epic troll alias with 100 posts and proceed to post something stupid in every thread.

There posts might never get more than 5-10 downvotes in some threads but you're thinking "Oh god, not again" every time you see their name.

theabortionatorSometimes the downvoted posts are great though.

It's more the people that get on their epic troll alias with 100 posts and proceed to post something stupid in every thread.

There posts might never get more than 5-10 downvotes in some threads but you're thinking "Oh god, not again" every time you see their name.

I'd bet that if we actually performed some analysis though that the ones that were super funny would have a good up/down ratio. The 'score' that you guys see is only the difference between upvotes and downvotes.

The really interesting number is the 'wilson score' - which gives us a 1-10 decimal made up of all the votes.

For instance when we look at forum threads, its actually ones that are rated closest to 7 that are the best, with about 5-8 being the range that are awesome threads. 10 means they're all just lollipops and rainbows and 1 means its garbage that nobody wants.

I'd gander a guess that posts would end up being the same way. So you could say hide anything that scores a 3 or below (or give people the option to hide it) and that would mean something with 100 downvotes and 20 upvotes wouldn't get hidden. It'd still have a score as you see it in the forums of -80 though.

The way it appears to work is that guys like you like that kind of stuff and offset the happy rainbows crowd by just enough.

on TGR if you block someone it ignores all of that user's posts, which would be very useful! It can't be that difficult to add something like that, they're forum/site is pretty damn basic haha.

.nyleson TGR if you block someone it ignores all of that user's posts, which would be very useful! It can't be that difficult to add something like that, they're forum/site is pretty damn basic haha.

Well its 'basic' because they use Vbulletin - which is/was the worlds' leading forum software. NS is custom, which is the reason its so much better integrated with the content side of the site, but that means it lacks a ton of what people consider 'basic' features.

Yeah, I think this would be a good idea.