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ASK PG: Why can't you bury or downvote submissions?
It would be nice to have more than the flag option for submissions.
- tokenadult 17y agoThe flag option suffices. The curators here do a good job of looking at all flagged submissions for whatever problem they present. You may not have heard that a submission that is flagged a defined number of times by users with power to flag will be autokilled, removing it from view of users who don't have "showdead" turned on.
- tsally 17y agoIf it aint broke... Honestly I think that's something to consider in the event of a decrease in quality. The current system is working fine at the moment.
- notaddicted 17y ago'you' can downvote submissions, but You (&I) cannot. If I recall, there is a certain user point threshold over which downvoting is enabled.
- tokenadult 17y agoIf I recall, there is a certain user point threshold over which downvoting is enabled. Downvoting comments or downvoting submissions? (The latter is the subject of the thread. I'm not aware of anyone other than curators having any power but flagging submissions.)
- notaddicted 17y agoI guess I just assumed it applied to both then. I don't know.
- pg 17y agoIf a submission is offtopic it should be killed. Hence flag. If a submission is on-topic, you have to depend on votes to rank it. It seemed from watching Reddit fairly closely that downvotes were, on average, made more reflexively than upvotes. So we just use upvotes.