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Downvotes should cost the user their own points.

People are bizarrely attached to their magical internet points and such consequences would perhaps have most think twice before flippantly greying out a comment they only read the first sentence of.

With the rampant vote inflation I think the limits should be at least quadrupled.




That is how you kill a site. It should be easier to remove bad content than to create more crap. The table is already tilted towards those creating misinformation and spam, making it more costly to prune this is an incredibly bad idea.


Bad content can be removed by flagging.


Then more mods will need to be hired because no one will waste a downvote on spam.

I would save mine for the next spaces vs tabs thread.




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