"If your ratio of down votes to up votes, falls below 50/50, then your comments will be hidden" This is just Reddit (and I think HN) but even worse. At least w

"If your ratio of down votes to up votes, falls below 50/50, then your comments will be hidden" This is just Reddit (and I think HN) but even worse. At least with Reddit it's a certain threshold below 0 before it becomes hidden. With this system a single downvote would make comments hidden. I think Slashdot is the closest to getting this right where you can (even if not a user) choose the thresholds in terms of score for abbreviating and hiding comments.