Try to prevent people from feeding the trolls. When people reply to a -4 comment it makes it harder to ignore that comment. It effectively pushes it up on the

Try to prevent people from feeding the trolls. When people reply to a -4 comment it makes it harder to ignore that comment. It effectively pushes it up on the page. So disable replying to -4 comments. It's probably also necessary to hide any existing replies. Exhibit A: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852305 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852305