> Server-side: If userA always 'up votes' comments from userB apply a negative weighting to that upvote This falls down, hard, in expert communities. There are

> Server-side: If userA always 'up votes' comments from userB apply a negative weighting to that upvote This falls down, hard, in expert communities. There are a few users who are extremely knowledgeable that are always going to get upvoted by long term community members who acknowledge that expert's significant contributions. > Being able to block all content from specific users and the replies to specific users. This is doable now client side, but when /. was big, it had to be done server side, which is where I imagine all the limits around friend/foes came from! The problem here is, trolls can create gobs of accounts easily, and malevolent users group together to create accounts and upvote them, so they have plenty of spare accounts to go through.