what if you are only granted 1 downvote per 2 upvotes you assign-- this would have a triple effect of promoting a more positive site-wide image and make downvotes twice as meaningful while also preventing abusive brigading of users-- just a thought- is the idea even feasibly applicable?
I don’t see how this could be enforced. There’s no requirement for each instance to run the same software ad others to require this.
As open source, someone could create a private fork and just not do it.
There could also be communities where up vote and down vote farming could occur so save them for other communities.
Now for the good news. If you were a school or uni or some other organisation, you could make your own instance and have to software changed to enforce this and not federate as the organization controls the servers used and the code on it.
it would be an interesting environment to experience… i’d be curious to see where people put their rarefied downvotes-- how they adjust their button pressing economy :P