[–] HowAboutShutUp ago
I'm 100% for an idea like this one or similar, I'd like to see a better kind of balance for handling disagree button usage and brigading. I think that the lack of granularity that, for example, reddit has, is what in part led to making every problem look like a nail and shadowbanning like a hammer on that site. Voat already does a lot of stuff in a better or more interesting way; this could be one of them too.
[–] Dissident_Aggressor ago
Upvote brigades are still a thing. Get a bunch of nutters or false flag dickasses upvoting their zany lizardman conspiracies to the top of every comments section. Not to mention the waves of spammers from SRS or wherever. That said, I'm all for putting up stricter limits on the numbers of downvoats you can use per day, or per # of upvoats, or something similar. They shouldn't be dropped all willy-nilly. Would be interesting to tie a downvoat to a comment, come to think of it. Like, you have to at least reply with something. Would mess with the "top comment" algorithm potentially, though, I'm not sure if that runs purely on the voating or also on the comments.