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Too often items seem irrationally downvoted. The policy shouldn't be so one-sided, and sometimes downvotes should require justification. How do we signify this
by stephengillie 8y ago
Too often items seem irrationally downvoted. The policy shouldn't be so one-sided, and sometimes downvotes should require justification. How do we signify this - possibly with something similar to the Vouch feature?
- chrchang523 8y agoOne possibility that comes to mind: you can spend 1 (maybe this number can be increased in high-traffic contexts) karma and forfeit your ability to gain net karma on a specific comment, to force people to reply to it in order to downvote it. Something like this is pretty obviously necessary at this point; it is trivial for me to find examples of bad-faith downvotes that cannot be backed up with argument, and it shouldn’t be.
- YouAreGreat 8y ago> bad-faith downvotes that cannot be backed up with argument Would forcing them to make bad-faith arguments really improve the place?