Question

Is there a way to automatically hide a question/answer after getting X down votes?

Please note that when a question is hidden, its answer(s) and comment(s) must be hidden, too. Also when an answer is hidden, its comment(s) must be hidden, too.

Answer 1

Yes. You can implement a plugin to do so. Take a look at the event plugin documentation: http://www.question2answer.org/modules.php?module=event . Just listen for the dowvote events and maybe to the upvote and nilvote events too if you want to automatially reshow the post.

The behaviour you mention in your comment is the default one. In fact, the children posts are not displayed but they are not actually hidden.