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I don't find it to be a feature. I find it infantilising. "Other users didn't like this post, so we'll make it hard to read". I think it was a terrible design d

I don't find it to be a feature. I find it infantilising. "Other users didn't like this post, so we'll make it hard to read". I think it was a terrible design decision on an otherwise very clean site.

paulddraper 10y ago
It's a very helpful hint as to which community contributed content is good quality. Like Stack Overflow making the lower rated answers less obvious (at the bottom). Oh, and SO greys out text too.
- DocTomoe 10y ago
  On Stack Overflow, where "Quality" can be quantified, this might work (even though stackoverflow slowly is failing - this being one of the reasons). On mere discussion sites, quality does not equal popularity. Equating these two things leads to echo chambers.
- The_suffocated 10y ago
  Hmm, since the appearances of low-quality answers on SO are so different from the others, I usually end up moving the mouse over them impulsively to read them. Had SO not greyed out such postings, I would have simply ignored them and saved plenty of my time.
- emodendroket 10y ago
  > Oh, and SO greys out text too. If all your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?