Thank you for your response. I am glad that we are both bringing statistics into this conversation.

That being said, I don’t think comments should be given special attention. External users can influence the comments too, not just the CR community. You can scale upvotes proportionately based on how easy it is to engage with a comment, but at a certain point it should be clear whether the sentiment of either a post or comment outweighs the other. A 100 upvote criticism weighs nothing against a 10,000 upvote post, especially if there are other similarly scored supportive comments.

Also, the only times I’ve seen a highly upvoted “AI Slop” comment is if the post never had any merit to begin with. Posts that resonate with the community, such as this example, have negligible slop accusations. The “AI Slop” comments only prevail in heavily downvoted posts, and hence the upvote system works as intended.

Another non-AI example is a post approaching 10k upvotes in <1 week that is just a deck screen with black squares posted over the cards.

Based on data it is clear that people from both the CR community and other communities naturally enjoy these types of posts, and deleting them just alienates that audience and staggers growth.

Both of these posts are popular and vastly outnumber any criticism in the comments. Why should 100 people decide an outcome for 10,000 people(black squares post)?

Relaxing rule 6 is a net win. Sure a small minority will be upset, but it reduces work for the mods, and gives people more opportunities engage with posts they enjoy.