Big Brother Posted:

I have an idea. How about you can’t downvote until you actually get one idea submitted? Because frankly, if you can’t come up with anything better, who are you to criticize it?

Some of us aren’t creative enough to come up with something, but we know funny (and ****ty) when we see it.

The idea I like (which I think is a combination of a lot of ideas that have already been thrown out there more than an original one) is to give people the benefit of the doubt. If they have ****ty voting ratios for a period of time (1 week, 2?), only give them the option to downvote x number of submissions without pbuming/upvoting others. After that, it becomes a percentage of total votes – maybe 40% up/pbum 60% down or something like that. I’m not sure 50/50 is fair just because the ratio of good stuff to **** that I’ve seen isn’t 50/50 either. And if you really hate *everything* in a week where you’re restricted, pbum on it instead of upvoting. (although I see this being something of a coding nightmare)