Hot take: that isn’t something people couldn’t have done before, if-and-only-if they had a very strong upvote/downvote. I don’t think adding gradations much increases the affordance/incentive for people to do it more than weighted karma did originally. As before, karma is a certain measure of trust.
The problem is that one strong vote can beat many average votes, even from equally high karma users. This kind of outvoting couldn’t have happened before.
Hot take: that isn’t something people couldn’t have done before, if-and-only-if they had a very strong upvote/downvote. I don’t think adding gradations much increases the affordance/incentive for people to do it more than weighted karma did originally. As before, karma is a certain measure of trust.
The problem is that one strong vote can beat many average votes, even from equally high karma users. This kind of outvoting couldn’t have happened before.