Reply #29: I think that's a 'mercy rule'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Unrec wasn't introduced to make it obvious what many DUers really hate; it was to improve the quality of threads on the Greatest page, by making a difference between "I haven't even seen this thread" and "I have read this OP, and I think it is poor". Admin has decided that the '<0' is suficient to let people know the thread is not well received. If a full count of the unrecs was shown, some DUers would be unrecing just to make it known "lots of people really hate this thread/poster". Unfortunate, but there are DUers childish enough to do that.

Threads that do have 105 unrecs and 100 recs tend to show up in the "very close" list in the 'alternative top 10'.