I see no purpose for downvoting, besides it being a strategic tool used by some to get ideas they want ahead by penalizing other ideas and ‘neutralizing’ the upvotes they get, in this way voting things down has an incentive besides just downvoting ideas someone doesn’t like because they could downvote to give their own ideas a better chance regardless of their opinion on what they downvote (not to mention downvoting GOOD ideas would also fall into this category since they are more competition).

Also I think if people were limited in their ability to upvote main forum ideas for the forum that gets chosen that week, say only being able to use 5 votes a week, they would think more about what they choose to give their vote to since they can only support 5 things (or whatever number it is 5 is just an example).

PS – Banning people for downvote ratio is the worst idea ever because you can’t prove they are downvoting based on strategy or they TRULY BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS **** (amazing! but this can happen). I don’t see why people should be penalized for downvoting based on their ratio even if their ratio is negative.

Why do you want to waste more time – as moderators – fiddling about with giving a **** about ratios and then having all the hbumle that would come from banning people for this (because you know banning people can result in hbumles, tubmails and general wastes of time), rather than just eliminate downvoting altogether.

But hey if you want to hear more ****ing then go for it. But forcing people to feel like they HAVE to upvote things due to some sort of ratio is bs.