> "I like the idea of paying to downvote" This reads to me like charging people to pick up trash while they're out walking. Voting is a mini-act of trying to i

> "I like the idea of paying to downvote" This reads to me like charging people to pick up trash while they're out walking. Voting is a mini-act of trying to improve the site for others by sweeping trash comments down and out of others' way and lifting good comments up to prominence; who would pay to do that? Who would think it reasonable to expect people to pay to do it?