Please note this was not me as a host saying this. Merely me trying to act like a clown for a change, but ultimately failing because you obviously don't think it's the least funny. There are a number of things I could say about this, but while you're using words such as "unacceptable", "objective" and "belittle" so fondly, try and recall the posts that went like "I am deliberately mean", "I know I'm abrasive", "you're not in my culture & traditions", "I know it's an irrational convention" and last but not least the posts that indeed chose to criticize my work in a rude way without reading it and insulting a whole region of Europe. Let's say it's not me who incited a lack of objectivity or rationality here. Pointless and detrimental to any progress. That's all I'm going to say (and this may be too much already) because it's this kind of comments that derailed the objective and rational part of the thread and caused me to go dark to be able to produce this write-up and I'm glad the people I chose to keep in touch with only found this reasonable. Now, may I ask you, please join me with the other ones in finding a rule set as balanced as possible. I feel your well-considered opinion may be valuable since I acknowledge your online experience.
Those voting % are a little high, in my opinion. Increasing the % does not increase participation - they never have and never will correlate. It usually just breeds sheep with one word/sentence posts.
Any proposals on which percentages to use, please? I can only judge from real life experience. I hope you see it works in such situations, but indeed this is a different medium with its own peculiarities. So I don't have that much of a clue.