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Absolutely absurd and illogical

• thatguy0900 5y ago
  It's also related to the up votes. A post with a bad comment to up vote ratio usually means that a flame war is going on
  • krapp 5y ago
    >A post with a bad comment to up vote ratio usually means that a flame war is going on. No it doesn't, not unless most comments typicaly get upvoted, which seems counterintuitive to me. A bad comment to downvote ratio indicates a flamewar, since there are no flamewars without downvotes, but more comments than upvotes just means high comment velocity (which can go either way) or just that no one is saying anything particularly interesting, which isn't implicitly harmful. A flamewar detector that hides popular threads to suppress engagement just in case there might be a flamewar is working at cross purposes with the goal of a forum, which is engagement.
• kevingadd 5y ago
  It's a measure to halt flamewars
• slenk 5y ago
  A flamewar detector is absurd and illogical?