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It’s too easy to downvote and flag someone. It also became extremely difficult to have a substantial discussion here due to “being off topic” and non-transparent post quotas.

There’s also an astonishingly high number of people who supposed to be smart and educated but are in fact just a bunch of idiots with hurt egos rolling on karma.



Tangentially; I keep finding I flag things accidentally due to mainly browsing on mobile.


Assuming that modifying the minimal user interface is unwanted, a simple confirmation interaction could fix this.


It's always kind of drove me nuts that the "Hide" and "Flag" buttons are right next to each other. The number of times I've fat-fingered Flag by mistake and had to go to my Flagged Submissions and remove it...


It helps that downvotes are limited to -4. Can’t have your entire profile obliterated by one misstep comment like on Reddit


Plus on Reddit people often delete their heavily down-voted comments (I dont know if this actually matters for a users karma but people sure do think so) which makes it impossible to follow the entire discussion and see what was actually going on.

Nothing as frustrating as finding what seems to be an interesting and engaging discussion but then finding several key posts missing...


Missing comments in chain is almost always someone using a privacy scrubber

Deletion doesn’t remove negative karma no. Just prevents more. Sorta




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