Craft Bond Posted:

Ok, but flat out eliminating downvoting wouldn’t be the answer. all you’d end up with is mbumive spam voting, with nothing to counter it.

Now, eliminating elimination…that could work.

Except voting “Pbum” obsessively doesn’t actively cancel out the people who honestly upvote a good idea, the way downvoting does.

Spam-upvoting a bad idea is just as possible now as it would be without downvoting, and if the worst someone can do is add a vote to a bad idea and ignore the rest, hopefully the damage wouldn’t be too great.

In the stickied thread on fixing itembuildr that people are now ignoring, I mentioned the idea of letting people vote on -5’d ideas, but, in retrospect, it’s just not a feasible solution.