There’s a solution: k-means clustering. This would aggregate people for whom downvote means “I don’t agree”, and separately those whose downvote means “that’s

There’s a solution: k-means clustering. This would aggregate people for whom downvote means “I don’t agree”, and separately those whose downvote means “that’s an inflammatory/ unsupported/ insane position”. Soon, those open to reasoned debate would see comments by others known for reasoned debate — regardless of their political/ideological stripe. The trolls would be relegated each to their own echo-chamber. Everybody wins!