(09-25-2020, 10:14 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: It's not a widespread problem. We've actually had a number of new members giving negative feedback who didn't realise that it wasn't the normal way to do things here, and all but one (as far as I can tell) retracted the negative reputation points they had given.You obviously have not seen the whole.
(09-25-2020, 04:45 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I vote option 3: we've seen that it's not the existence of downvotes that's the problem, it's the abuse of them. Deal with the abuse, not the "reputation"It might be difficult and time consuming to find out who started abuse.
Unless you have kind of a court this might rise to a different kind of abuse by mods.