>A different mechanism could be used for the sorts of issues you identify. Would the new proposed mechanism require more volunteer work or the same effort as n

>A different mechanism could be used for the sorts of issues you identify. Would the new proposed mechanism require more volunteer work or the same effort as now? Btw, many people forget that back in 2011, Jeff Atwood was concerned that there was too much crap and the community was not downvoting enough. Therefore, he removed the points penalty to encourage the community to aggressively downvote more: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-not-sand/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/06/13/optimizing-for-pearls-...