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Protect against serial downvoters.

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FT-194
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onno
Created
Sep 28, 2026
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Certain people on this tracker will serially downvote issues submitted by others, even if the issues submitted are valid. I think this is because they think it will help to highlight issues they care about more, instead of voting based on issue quality or validity. I would like to see some kind of system where downvoting like this comes at a cost.

Examples I can think of are:

  1. The Stack overflow karma system. With this system, the ability to downvote is tied to the karma of the voter and it makes that serial downvoting becomes very costly.

  2. Requiring a comment to be posted before a downvote can be cast in combination with a reporting system if the comment is not relatable to the downvote. In this way some meaningful feedback must be given and moderation can make sure that it does not boil down to some form of: "Well, I think issue XYZ is more important, so I'm downvoting yours".

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    13 days ago
  • onno
    created issue13 days ago
  • onno
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  • baconbunsy
    13 days ago
    baconbunsy
    13 days ago

    6wingseraph is notable one and should just be kicked out.

  • 13 days ago
  • okonkwo
    13 days ago
    okonkwo
    13 days ago

    This is ridiculous, we don't need 3 factor authentication for a downvote, its not that deep

  • onno
    changed12 days ago
  • onno
    12 days ago
    onno
    12 days ago

    You think serial downvoting is not a problem? Please explain why.

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State

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Issue key
FT-194
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Public
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Feedback Tracker
Creator
onno
Created
Sep 28, 2026
Views
62