Thanks all, voting is CLOSED. Results, 1217 responses:

https://i.imgur.com/qUcDO9l.png

789 - 64.8% in favor
428 - 35.2% opposed

The negative karma threshold is -10.

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Hey everyone!

In the past month we've seen passing references to severe troll accounts on /r/SeattleWA becoming endemic, where they're not breaking rules but being general persistent pains in the butt. Many of them seem to be there to stir up trouble and try to pick fights (as a mix of left/right politics), and many of them seem to go to negative karma, which takes a good bit of effort.

Go look at your user profile. See your link and comment karma? You're probably positive on both. You need to work VERY hard to get negative karma on Reddit over time. Basically, you need to be a trolling shit poster, probably targeting a specific subreddit for whatever audience you want to practice your trolling upon. Negative karma on Reddit takes hard work, and it's a reflection that the populace of a given subreddit being done with you.

There is a common method in Automoderator that a lot of subreddits use to deal with this: Karma Filtering. Automoderator can filter away these users based upon karma so you all don't need to deal with them.

A lot of subreddits do this. Most subreddits do a simple silent "removal" of this content. IF we do this, we would leave a note to make sure that there was always a public "audit" trail for good users to know what happened. If Automoderator removes one of these comments it will post saying so:

"I removed a low karma post for XYZ reasons, beep boop I'm a bot."

Like we've said before: we want to know if we should make a big rules change. You tell us.

For example:

Is user karma -75 or more?
If no, then do nothing
If yes, then automatically remove their submissions/comments and leave a note so everyone knows a likely troll account was removed

That's it. Remember, too: people can repair their karma over time.

Should we do this?

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Thanks!

We will run this vote through about 1,000+ responses or middle of next week, whichever comes first.