I’m concerned that this makes the ability to downvote a limited resource. That’s good in some ways, but as long as we’re talking about “what if someone created a whole bunch of accounts to mess things up” scenarios, it raises an unpleasant possibility.
If someone mass-created accounts to post flame bait and complete garbage, we’d respond by voting them down severely, which restricts the ability to use downvotes productively in actual discourse.
I don’t know much about the way this site is set up. Was that scenario already considered, but viewed as unlikely for reasons I’m not seeing?
I’m concerned that this makes the ability to downvote a limited resource. That’s good in some ways, but as long as we’re talking about “what if someone created a whole bunch of accounts to mess things up” scenarios, it raises an unpleasant possibility.
If someone mass-created accounts to post flame bait and complete garbage, we’d respond by voting them down severely, which restricts the ability to use downvotes productively in actual discourse.
I don’t know much about the way this site is set up. Was that scenario already considered, but viewed as unlikely for reasons I’m not seeing?