Hi guys,

I understand your frustration. With the recent influx of buildr noobs, there have been a lot of serial downvoters. I often look at the ratios and warn users, although it’s not an efficient way to deal with the problem. But while I don’t want to remove downvoting altogether, I think there should be some restrictions.

My thinking is, if your ratio is very low (and you’ve reached a minimum number of votes), you get a warning. Then, if you ignore the warning, at some point your downvotes get cut off unless you either vote some stuff up, or maybe we put in a time constraint.

Over a period of months, if you’re consistently meeting the lowest standards (i.e., only upvoting because you were warned each week) you will be ripe for bannination. I’m also thinking individuals who were banned for forumbuildr misconduct could have their votes retroactively reversed, although that’d be much harder to implement in mid-build.

I’ll discuss with the team further, but please continue to give us your input.