The new system is fundamentally flawed because of the following reasons:
It creats severe misrepresentations, since a red mark implies "most of the community disagrees with this post" while a green mark implies "wow, look at this awesome post everybody likes" while in reallity it just means that you have two fanboys or hater out there. Consider a post 99 percent of the board members are ok with but three people feel really offended... well, the thread will get a red mark and vanish.
It doesn't succeed in representing the opinions of the members and it sure isn't the right way of handling spam or troll posts either. The latter one should be done by a moderator if and only if there is some grounds for it, like endorsing crime or something along those lines.
To sum it up, the new rating system was installed for the wrong purpose and on top of that it was done the wrong way.
No matter how you look at it, it's just hypocritical to treat opinions like that in a board for hardcore freedom fighters. I mean no hardware project ever mentioned in this board was free enough for certain persons, but obviously they're fine with hiding uncertain posts.
