Post History

As a starting point for discussion, I suggest that the logged-out view not show any posts that are closed or have a score worse than that of +0/-1.   We're not trying to pretend that downvotes never happen, just mitigate their aggregate effect.

I'm proposing this for the default view only.  Someone who sorts by age or does a search or chooses a tag would see everything.  A direct link to a post would still always work.  This is about *first impressions*.

I also suggest that we keep some filtering in place at least temporarily after the visitor creates an account.  I have several ideas here, but none of them really baked.  We could tie lifting it to an ability, or account age, or tour completion (maybe we add a "show me everything" button to the end of the tour?), or user activity (maybe lift it when you post for the first time), or...?

I would *also* like us to add durable, user-defined filters, an idea that was illustrated in Matt's design mockup sometime back.  I'm planning to make a separate feature request about that.  *If* we had that, then we could give new users a default filter, its presence would be visible, and they could turn it off whenever they want by adjusting the filter.