I'd like to see a list of valid reasons for downvoting, an appeal process, and removal of voting rights from those who downvote without valid reason. That's probably asking too much, though.
I like this idea, although I fear that people would simply select whatever comes closest to "This comment provides inaccurate information" to express their disagreement.
People have an increasing tendency to view those with opposing moral positions as not just wrong morally, but also wrong factually, despite there being no facts involved in the discussion. (Attempts to explain the is-ought gap typically don't change minds, at least not in the short term.)
I’d say hide vote counts on submissions and comments, don’t grey out anything, and show approx karma eg under 500, 500-1k then to the nearest 1s.f.
Limit submission karma to 10 per post and 10 post karma/week and maybe only if comment to post ratios are met: why do I get 200 karma for pasting a URL and 4 karma for a good comment?
I’ve seen accounts that are clearly submitting NYT and other articles on the hour 24/7 with huge karma.
This is an issue because it means it’s easy to automate creation of 500-karma accounts and have an army of downvoters
People have an increasing tendency to view those with opposing moral positions as not just wrong morally, but also wrong factually, despite there being no facts involved in the discussion. (Attempts to explain the is-ought gap typically don't change minds, at least not in the short term.)