There are also other issues that are not solved, like notifications still get flooded with this spam, ginabot notifications, the fact they still show up in your replies
Seems like UI problems. You should be able to mute notifications from annoying spammers, hide them from recent replies, etc.
From the other reply it looks like esteem is taking some steps on this. Other UIs need to as well.
Sounds dreamy.
How does downvotes even change this? You don't get notified of mentions if there is a downvote? Not even sure how that would work.
You take away someone's milk, they have a fit.
I mean the change where downvoted comments are hidden vs not hidden. I don't see how it matters to this.
Every problem (like shitty notifiers) is not a core platform issue.
Well, I can give lots of examples, but a good one is cemalbaba who drops endless dick pics in the comment section when he got flagged.