Or just stop caring about upvotes and downvotes?
Ok but the idea is based on countering bots and bot nets. The only thing it really changes is the threshold becomes more difficult but the difference between maybe a 601 and a 602 is astronomical.
I feel like it punishes real people more than bots. An exponential amount of clicks is easy for a bot to achieve.
Exactly. 1, 1000; bot doesn’t care. A human, on the other hand… this is a scheme to promote bot nets, not discourage them.
A bit confusing. Presumably you mean “after giving an upvote”. In other words, to disincentivize upvotes.
Sounds like exactly the opposite of what would encourage friendly civil discourse: disincentivizing downvotes.
Slashdot got this right decades ago. No upvotes, no downvotes, just tags. Such as “informative”, “insightful”, “funny”, and a couple of more negative ones like (IIRC) “provocative” or “controversial”, which at least force you to say why you’re promoting or hating on someone’s good-faith contribution. But apparently that was all just too complex for the simpletons we really are.
