Re: [Trisquel-users] On hiding the down-voted posts... and everything below

[christian]

I'm skeptical that the voting is a good idea at all in the long run, hiding  
or none.  I think it could be too easy to conflate upvoted posts as being  
endorsed by the Trisquel project - a casual observer may just assume the  
views of the community reflect those of the Trisquel project.

Right now this isn't an issue because the community aligns pretty well with  
Trisquel, but it's not hard (for me, anyway) to imagine a situation where  
this changes - the project gains steam with the general population (as  
opposed to mostly just those who really care about freedom), and we could be  
seeing heavy criticisms of free software upovoted en masse, next to very  
little support for Trisquel's honest philosophy.  I'm sure if it got that  
far, the rating system would get removed, but removing it specifically to  
de-emphasize certain posts would not go over well with any community.