[Roberton3]

Yvonne moved the threshold forup/down votes hiding a post from -5 to -7, and that one got all the way to -7. As discussed in another thread, that threshold is really meant as an emergency spam/porn/etc. block, but folks are using the down arrow as a "strongly disagree" button, so stuff gets blocked that shouldn't. Maybe the threshold should be -10,  or be removed.

You can control how the system handles this when you're reading the board.  Go to Profile: Account Settings, and then Modify Profile: Look and Layout.  Then at the bottom of that screen, there's a setting for "Voted posts: What to do with posts scoring -7 or less?"  If you choose "nothing" as the option there, the system will continue to display all posts, no matter how negative a score they've accumulated.

[Roberton3]

Yvonne moved the threshold forup/down votes hiding a post from -5 to -7, and that one got all the way to -7. As discussed in another thread, that threshold is really meant as an emergency spam/porn/etc. block, but folks are using the down arrow as a "strongly disagree" button, so stuff gets blocked that shouldn't. Maybe the threshold should be -10,  or be removed.

You can control how the system handles this when you're reading the board.  Go to Profile: Account Settings, and then Modify Profile: Look and Layout.  Then at the bottom of that screen, there's a setting for "Voted posts: What to do with posts scoring -7 or less?"  If you choose "nothing" as the option there, the system will continue to display all posts, no matter how negative a score they've accumulated.