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While the idea of "downvote requires a posted reason" is no doubt the best idea, if it proves too radical a change from a technical or behavioral reason, at lea
by whybroke 11y ago
While the idea of "downvote requires a posted reason" is no doubt the best idea, if it proves too radical a change from a technical or behavioral reason, at least radically raise the karma need to downvote. Say so that only the top K number of accounts by age or karma can do so where K is _not_ a percentage. Because honestly the number of down-voting-for-poorly-thought-out-postings is now mightily outweighed by down-voting-becuse-I-dont-agree.
So much so that to be honest I now take downvotes as a badge of honor ironically.
- DanBC 11y agoI currently have 27800 karma. What makes you think I'm not an idiot with the downvote button?
- whybroke 11y agoSubjectively the problem seemed less bad in the past so I'm thinking that limiting to the donwvote permissions to longer term users will reduce the problem. Very obviously requiring comments for downvotes is better.