[Etherlord87]

> The Great Reset 2.0 which might save SO:

> Everyone whose downvotes exceed a certain threshold has their reputation points reduced to zero.

This could be reasonable or not, depending on the "threshold". SO/SE already have mechanisms (which aren't perfect) to deal with emotional up/down-voting. It already 'punishes' with a 2 rep cost for downvoting an answer. It doesn't for downvoting a question.