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An obvious thing that comes to mind is how downvoted comments are grayed and purposely made difficult to read, and flagged comments aren't readable at all. Being downvoted or flagged means (regardless of what they're supposed to mean) literally nothing other than "goes against the mob's mentality," so comments are penalized in a functional manner for going against the mob. They shouldn't have the power to artificially make opposing thoughts more difficult or impossible to read. Maybe control it with settings similar to showdead, for those who like the mob to curate the thoughts and ideas they're exposed to for them.

>>Tommst+(OP)
I don't like mob behaviors either, but there are plenty of reasons why comments get downvoted and flagged besides that. Low-quality flamewar comments, for example, deserve both downvotes and flags, for reasons that have nothing to do with mobs.

You've unfortunately been posting some of these yourself - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429902. Can you please not? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, and we have to ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.