I tend to agree. It will lead to what is basically another form of flame war. If the only result is that a post gets hidden, we already got that when you hit “report to moderator”
Second, funny enough it is a form of censorship because the post could be in no way breaking any rules and now you alienate members who can’t see the post or engage in conversation.
It is pretty defeatist concept and does not bring anything positive to the forum.
I guess memory of that silly Karma thing runs short. So many problems came from that.
And now yet another problem…… I just made this post and i notice 6+ respect. To me that means this is a running total thing where the respect + is cumulative. This is a real problem. The goal should be to be able to flag a post itself. Each case of that should not cause a cumulative running total. If the respect was only regulated to the actual post it might work. Whenever it becomes some overall impression of a poster, you are just alienating them into not posting and that was part of the karma problem.
How many posts with - respect need to exist for the post to get hidden?