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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
I have to say, based on my intuition since I don't have hard data to go on, that this sounds very ineffective against the purpose it's designed for while threatening healthy reddit usage.
First of all, I think it should by default be thread-specific. It should probably also not be something mods might be encouraged to keep on all the time, but rather should be able to turn on automatically (the sensitivity being set by mods) if you detect brigade-like behaviour (lots of users who don't frequent a subreddit suddenly finding a specific thread).
I also think making it so if a user has negative karma in a subreddit their comments are always hidden is a very bad idea, as this will further help form circlejerks and echo chambers, those are already a problem on reddit. Moderators can already ban users they deem unwanted, putting in a feature to automatically impune their comments seems extremely overkill. At that point if you have one bad comment chain in a community you might as well make a new account.
Comment by BreathManuallyNow at 11/12/2019 at 14:17 UTC
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mods might be encouraged to keep on all the time
You know they will though...