Like I said, there would be many drawbacks. You couldn't just switch to such a system, a whole new one would have to be built from the ground up around it. An alternative method would have every account with a 'budget' that increases the more you upvote and decreases the more you downvote. That would make bot accounts that downvote everything on the site a lot harder to implement, but a modicum of participation would leave you free to downvote, as long as you were contributing positive input at a higher rate.
I'm just spit-balling about social media sites in general, not actually making suggestions for this site.
I like that although I'm not sure it needs to go to a mod queue for review. What if your name, after the pts for the current post, to have in parenthesis the overall +/- on like the past 2 days. So if someone had upvoted 20 posts and downvoted 10 they'd have a +10. By keeping it a short window of time (I just pulled 2 days out of my ass) it would prevent things from getting too crazy on the numbers displayed. Actually maybe not even a time window, a vote window, so like the last 20 upvotes or downvotes showed, that way nobody would ever be outside the -20 to +20 range.
Like I said, there would be many drawbacks. You couldn't just switch to such a system, a whole new one would have to be built from the ground up around it. An alternative method would have every account with a 'budget' that increases the more you upvote and decreases the more you downvote. That would make bot accounts that downvote everything on the site a lot harder to implement, but a modicum of participation would leave you free to downvote, as long as you were contributing positive input at a higher rate.
I'm just spit-balling about social media sites in general, not actually making suggestions for this site.
I like that although I'm not sure it needs to go to a mod queue for review. What if your name, after the pts for the current post, to have in parenthesis the overall +/- on like the past 2 days. So if someone had upvoted 20 posts and downvoted 10 they'd have a +10. By keeping it a short window of time (I just pulled 2 days out of my ass) it would prevent things from getting too crazy on the numbers displayed. Actually maybe not even a time window, a vote window, so like the last 20 upvotes or downvotes showed, that way nobody would ever be outside the -20 to +20 range.