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Re:The Silence Is Deafening by EtrianWizard on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:36PM (#23729895)
Possible alternative: downvotes that don't affect placement, and just have an additional downvote counter.
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Re:The Silence Is Deafening by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday July 04, 2020 @09:54AM (#23732176)
I've sometimes wondered about a lifetime upvote/downvote counter as an alternative to upvote karma.

This would work in a secure community, but it will stop working as soon as astroturfing PR firms and state troll farms move in, because on most sites it's trivially easy to create downvotes bots to attack specific names.

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