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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
although people tend to think the only reason for collapse is controversial
That might be because that's been the way it has been on reddit pretty much since the upvote and downvote buttons came into the platform.
It was a way to still maintain having a dissenting opinon that was downvoted heavily to still be viewed by people that choose to still see that content.
Instead now you are proposing to try hide opinons, downvoted or not, just because a user either hasn't had any interaction with a sub before or because they might not align with whatever the mods want to make up.
Also are users meant to already know that a sub is liberal or conservative? or that it star wars fans comment will be hidden in star trek subs? Or furries can't talk with the bronies? No women in the mens subs? Anyone from the computer subs get hidden in the sports subs? You see what a devisive control measure this could be used for, right?
Let the users downvote. It's what reddit has used to control that for ever. Don't fix what isn't broken.
Comment by Valatros at 23/12/2019 at 22:00 UTC
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It's an opt-in moderator tool, not a blanket one. I don't know if you've ever been part of a sub that got brigaded, but as someone who has I'm pretty okay with this. A million people who aren't on the same page pour in every time a sub gets a single post on front page and this can be used to help manage that.