i'd ban self voting. it makes no sense.
i'd also ban all auto-voting. anything that is repetitively is most likely abuse.
so we could target patterns of behavior that promote good posts and remove those people that are clearly just biased voters.
yes I do think your vote should be nullified if it is used automatically in anyway that isn't a human behind a computer.
people love extremes, but moderation would be needed. people downvoting just because without justification... i see that as another area that needs to be addressed, expecially since we have whales that can flog someone in revenge. i think there should be repercussions to violence (downvotes) cast without justification.
yes I think we should all be required to write an explanation.
I always wondered about that actually. They could really prevent a lot of problems by not allowing it to begin with. Because just because one can easily get around it with just two accounts doesn't mean it wouldn't reduce the abuse (from people that are too lazy to do this for example).
I don't expect explanations to help very much since most people would simply write "disagree with rewards" or something. But who knows.
the idea that people will just go around it rotten indeed.
agreed that downvoting moderating would be difficult.