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A lot of posts marked with are rather controversial, and so is the voting on answers. However I think that the meta community partly lives from this diversity, and since downvoting on those kind of answers doesn't represent wrong but rather disagreement their presentation and accessibility shouldn't suffer from negative vote counts.

Unfortunately at a certain limit, answers with negative vote count are greyed out.

Therefore I propose that we either

  • completely remove the grey out on meta
  • remove the grey out depending on the presence of
  • increase the downvotes limit upon which an answer is greyed out on meta.

To save the hassle to look some up, here is a link to see how an answer currently looks like.

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    Similar requests are still alive on MSE: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/142628/… – Bart Apr 28 '14 at 14:46
  • @Bart: So time to revive it? Anyways I am unable to say if its a good idea for all metas, as I don't know if downvoting is perceived there the same way. Also implementing it as an increased downvotes limit might make it better to adapt for specific metas. – PlasmaHH Apr 28 '14 at 14:55
  • I dumped a bounty on it. Let's see if that sparks some additional attention and input. – Bart Apr 28 '14 at 14:57
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    FYI @plasmahh meta.stackexchange.com/a/230657/161198 – Bart Apr 28 '14 at 22:03
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This is done. The new threshold is -8.

You realize this just means y'all have to down-vote that much harder now, right?

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  • Lets keep this secret for us ;) – PlasmaHH Apr 29 '14 at 8:12
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    I will love to downvote here (where the downvotes are free :-) ) – John Dvorak Jul 20 '14 at 17:58

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