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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by andrepd on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:38PM (#27497665)
I actually have a sort of nice idea about this: make your downvotes' worth be inversely proportional to how many downvotes you give.

A person who gives 100 downvotes per month will have his downvotes count 1/20th as those of a person who downvotes 5 times per month. An incenctive to be really judicious in handing out downvotes and not simply using them to drown out minority opinions.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:08PM (#27498227)
Only issue here is that you are penalized for activity even if it’s in removing objective garbage. But I like the idea quite a bit. That you take a hit for being a negative ass that downvotes questions you think are beneath you.
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019) by systemvoltage on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:59PM (#27497813)
Interesting. I think we would still have the issue of 10 people piling up on a comment with downvotes, as judiciously as they can spend the budget.
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