Hacker News seems to have a definite idea on curbing downvote sports by capping the point display when things go to negative. This might be a good idea. Another intentional thing they have is having no downvoting at all on the toplevel posts, but their posts are more links and short questions than original articles, so this might not fit LW that well.
Spurious upvoting is probably also going on, but I don’t see it as problematic as downvotes since it doesn’t come with a direct effect of anonymously telling people that they don’t belong on the forum.
Hacker News seems to have a definite idea on curbing downvote sports by capping the point display when things go to negative. This might be a good idea. Another intentional thing they have is having no downvoting at all on the toplevel posts, but their posts are more links and short questions than original articles, so this might not fit LW that well.
Spurious upvoting is probably also going on, but I don’t see it as problematic as downvotes since it doesn’t come with a direct effect of anonymously telling people that they don’t belong on the forum.