> Downvoting has 13 years of work and stress testing by 10,000s of people, you don't just turn it off. This may be an argument for its correct functioning in t

> Downvoting has 13 years of work and stress testing by 10,000s of people, you don't just turn it off. This may be an argument for its correct functioning in the technical sense but is blatantly ignorant on changes in society and communication. If a mechanism becomes misused and exploited after a community grows and welcomes people from other communities, it has to be reconsidered. Social interaction definitely doesn't scale smoothly.