Sorry but I furiously (hack: Reddit; just: in my mind)

1 points by bhdz 11 years ago · 1 comment · 2 min read

Look. Downvoting should be renamed first things first. It should be named "spam?" or something suitable like that. And "upboats|upvotes|uppies|plusones|..." should be renamed VOTEs!

    Just votes. First let Us skip the renaming of downboats. But introduce 
    a behavior upon each instance of VOTing, like this:
        Some dumfuck posts on reddit, and gets a lot of "meh..." for his 
        posting:
            Some one (idiotA) has a chuckle out of that posting and he/she
            upboats the posting.

            Another user (idiotB) sees the chuckling (the upboat) and _his_ 
            "meh" grows into the frustration of "this is insolentio!, 
            i must be acting it right now out!" and downboats the 
            poisoned posting.

        Now! An alchemy of site-behavior starts bubbling!
        First, when the VOTING period is OVER, ALL the VOTERS get their 
        "LOCAL karmic action Judgement day"

        The Karma gets calculated, the posting is "frozen" now, and:
            Karma application RULEs:
                ?
                    All the upboaters get "+1" on their comment/content karma.
                     Nothing more, even if they _voted_ after the fact of:
                        their !!Karmic_weight = upboats/downboats <> goodness_threshold!
                    ALL the downvoters GET AWAY with their downboat instance
                        if:
                            their !!downboats <> current: goodness_threshold!
                            (say 4, or the mean of all the upboater's 
                                (default: goodness_threshold config...whatever...
                            )
                        otherwise:
                            They get punished somehow:

                                1) Their comment/content karma gets
                                    reduced: -1, so that it hinders 
                                    their further VOTING

                                2) They ARE BANNED from voting on the OP's 
                                    thread/posting

                                3) ??? You can go on with the HELL creation

                                ...
                                    This is my Word, and I expressed it to 
                                    the fullest in the best way 
                                    I am capable of.
                                    Goodbye for now! 

                                    Have fun for this is the true 
                                        purpose of the Internet!