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But it seems pretty obvious that these measures haven't fixed it. In addition, it doesn't seem to be so much the high karma people that are the problem, rather

by benaiah 14y ago

But it seems pretty obvious that these measures haven't fixed it. In addition, it doesn't seem to be so much the high karma people that are the problem, rather the large numbers of low karma people who exercise their unfettered use of the flag button liberally and inappropriately. Frankly, I don't see a good reason why flagging exists in the first place. Unrestricted downvoting is really what has made Reddit's community such a miserable morass, and flags are barely any better.

brudgers 14y ago
"But it seems pretty obvious that these measures haven't fixed it." It is not obvious to me that flagging is broken. The discussions sparked by the first Surface Pro reviews were filled with partisan trolling and largely bereft of insight. It wasn't the news that was crap, but the community's reactions. The stupidity to intelligence ratio was high and the temperature was rising.