They probably could, but that ends up being a very toil-based setup as new targets are found and selected. I wouldn’t consider this anything more than a short term stopgap.
As an example, even if Elo was protected, it’s pretty clear the eugine is willing to downvote anyone who comments on Elo material.
Also, if some comments by Elo are good and some are bad, we would lose the ability to organically downvote the bad ones. (Maybe the protected users should still be able to downvote each other?)
Could the administrators create protected accounts that could be up-voted but not down-voted?
They probably could, but that ends up being a very toil-based setup as new targets are found and selected. I wouldn’t consider this anything more than a short term stopgap.
As an example, even if Elo was protected, it’s pretty clear the eugine is willing to downvote anyone who comments on Elo material.
Also, if some comments by Elo are good and some are bad, we would lose the ability to organically downvote the bad ones. (Maybe the protected users should still be able to downvote each other?)