I can think of plenty of users with >500 merit who would quite happily abuse this and brigade another user's posts to have them all hidden, especially in the case of trust disputes. Also, such a feature would undoubtedly be misunderstood and used for posts the user dislikes or disagrees with, not just posts which are redundant.
Do you really think users would collude like that? I mean, a threshold (of distinct and qualified members) has to be reached before the post is considered "redundant". The merit requirement (and/or DT status, mentioned at the end) is there to mitigate abuse (with farmed accounts, etc.)
Similar logic applies to people misunderstanding how to use the feature; their individual clicks won't do anything unless (a fair few)
other members have already flagged that post as well.
It's a bit silly to criticize (rather than change) constants that were chosen while spitballing. If 500 merits is not enough, then make it 750. If 10 unique members is a threshold that's too easy to game, then make it 15...
Feels like you just read the line you quoted, and then quickly scanned the rest.
