Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 07:15:44 AM

Quote from: HOT_HEAD on Today at 05:01:46 AM

Downvoting would be a little different. Since there are probably a lot of people that are higher ranks from before the merit system, it wouldn't be that great to give them that much power to shut someone down, so let's say that there would be a threshold where when you get enough of the downvotes you lose merit (maybe something like 0.5) but if you get downvoted by a legendary or some other higher rank, you'd lose merit when you get downvoted regardless of the amount of downvotes you have or do not have.

I don't think that introducing downvoting that can lead to loosing merit would be a good idea. Rest assured, if something can be abused here on bitcointalk, it will be. For example, let's say that you caught group of high ranking scammers/cheaters, they can easily retaliate and make you loose the merit. Would that be fair?

So then they'd have to constantly downvote me on almost every post, and if you were to check the history, you'd see that it very much looks like I'm getting targeted even tho my posts might not be deserving of that mass downvoting. So once again, it can be detected very easily and it would require them a lot of work to target some guy and downvote him.

What's stopping some high ranking member to leave a negative trust and say something like:" excessive spamming" or something like that without the ref post or any proof. Same thing would happen, as in your suggestion.

Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 07:15:44 AM

Quote from: HOT_HEAD on Today at 05:01:46 AM

So if someone posts something really useless or copy/pasta reply, he can get downvoted enough not to lose merit but to think about what's he posting next time. Like a small slap on the wrist.

You can achieve the same if you report useless posts to mods. Chances are spammer will think twice before posting crap when he sees his useless posts constantly getting deleted. Every once in a while we get someone opening topic about his posts mysteriously disappearing, so they do notice that.

Ok then, let's say you don't lose merit but get your post deleted after you've reached a certain number of downvotes? It's faster to click one button and move on from that sihtpost, since other people might agree as well and will do the same, essentially removing the process of reporting the post and mods looking over it. I can only imagine how many reports per day they receive.

Why do I have a feeling that people here are scared of speaking about merit system? No one's going to lynch you for it, it's a forum, not a circlejerk bon fire.