scullyangel Posted:

I agree with plk that a lot of focused downvoting happens in those first 8 – 15 hours.

That is a really good idea. Only having an upvote or pbum option on your direct competition would prevent you and your 5 friends from killing off the competition overnight.

And then people would just downvote everything before they make their own submissions, with the added benefit that they could see what types of ideas are getting the best ‘real’ votes.

If we are going to eliminate downvoting, do it across the board. Don’t make it conditional on whether someone has submitted yet or not.