Abuse of downvotes

[Paulie420]

simple rules, three strikes, then ban should solve these problems, ya?

i find the upvotes mildly useful at times, but i admit not knowing downvotes were a thing.

Yea, thats my only issue. I like upvotes at times... and, it lets folks kinda know who to trust if its a really technical issue or.....

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@Luke

Is there any way to permanently block someone? Due to my, and many others, responses to a certain forum individual they have been on a down vote/negative rating crusade and have sought out every post I have basically made in order to negatively rate them.

I have ignored that person via the control panel, but that has no effect judging by the 10 negative reputations in basically 2 days.

I mean I know reputation is fake internet points, but this is getting harassing.

I'm having the same thing with LinAdmin2...

I wrote the moderators, ignored the user and haved held back at replying to his even accosting replies to me personally.

I called him an asshole; so I do deserve ONE negative. But... when it walks like a duck...

I, also, hope the mods would decide to refund the multiples of negatives by one user. I have like 7. Only from one user, with no other negative reports. Duh...

I only hate that this is even a thing we have to bother the mods with - like they have real issues to deal with like the store, bringing us more cool hardware and etc.

But, I am glad and think we needed to post about this ONE user. I bet you are talking about the same person.

Over and over and over and over isn't fair.

Linadmin2 is the person harassing me also. Big shock he is doing it to most people.

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As the community grows It appears that we'll have to set up a series of more stringent rules for people to follow .... which, frankly speaking, is a bummer.
As for the up/down votes - I am happy to get rid of them as I cannot see them serving any real purpose.
I'll start a vote in the community section.

edit: started a poll here

Please do.

It sucks that they are abused.

Furthermore, that one users round of downvotes yesterday... one of them stated that I spread hate and pornography. So.... I also think just posting BS and fibs should be handled with a heavier hand.

Like, just ban LinAdmin2 and everyone could up and downvote like normal humans.

lol @ pornography... what?!?!