So, I was mumbling about this on the IRC channel last night. I personally dislike banning users from commenting on a thread and the re-posting just seems like it'll fragment our community. If a controversial news article comes out, users will have an incentive to make their copy of the post to gain power over who can and cannot comment in the discussion. It's still pretty faulty, but I propose that all users comment are put into the same thread pool, and then comments are hidden, a la reddit, based on the preferences of those who shared the article with you. If users X, Y, and Z all share the article with me, and 2/3 of them ignore commenter Ω, then hide Ω's comment from me as well. It still leaves plenty of room to play around with. You could adjust ignore percentage threshold, "save" commenters that receive full rings, and partially gray out the test of users that are close to the threshold. I'm not too good at being critical of my own suggestions, so what are your thoughts on this?
