[alexvay]

I think the article is missing something visual to demonstrate the actual scoring at work.

I've made a simple plot in Excel here: http://i.imgur.com/adjaLQ9.png

The number of up-votes remains the same, while down-votes increases linearly. The scoring declining line in grey is the score.

[shaftway]

Here's a 3d graph showing this as a function of upvotes and downvotes. I think it's clearest with

x: [0, 100] y: [0, 100] z: [0, 1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=graph+((x+%2B+1.9208)+%2F+(x...)

[bwaxxlo]

Label the axises please.