Sorry but I furiously (hack: Reddit; just: in my mind)
Look. Downvoting should be renamed first things first. It should be
named "spam?" or something suitable like that.
And "upboats|upvotes|uppies|plusones|..." should be renamed VOTEs!
Just votes. First let Us skip the renaming of downboats. But introduce
a behavior upon each instance of VOTing, like this:
Some dumfuck posts on reddit, and gets a lot of "meh..." for his
posting:
Some one (idiotA) has a chuckle out of that posting and he/she
upboats the posting.
Another user (idiotB) sees the chuckling (the upboat) and _his_
"meh" grows into the frustration of "this is insolentio!,
i must be acting it right now out!" and downboats the
poisoned posting.
Now! An alchemy of site-behavior starts bubbling!
First, when the VOTING period is OVER, ALL the VOTERS get their
"LOCAL karmic action Judgement day"
The Karma gets calculated, the posting is "frozen" now, and:
Karma application RULEs:
?
All the upboaters get "+1" on their comment/content karma.
Nothing more, even if they _voted_ after the fact of:
their !!Karmic_weight = upboats/downboats <> goodness_threshold!
ALL the downvoters GET AWAY with their downboat instance
if:
their !!downboats <> current: goodness_threshold!
(say 4, or the mean of all the upboater's
(default: goodness_threshold config...whatever...
)
otherwise:
They get punished somehow:
1) Their comment/content karma gets
reduced: -1, so that it hinders
their further VOTING
2) They ARE BANNED from voting on the OP's
thread/posting
3) ??? You can go on with the HELL creation
...
This is my Word, and I expressed it to
the fullest in the best way
I am capable of.
Goodbye for now!
Have fun for this is the true
purpose of the Internet!