Should we get rid of reputation up/down votes?

[Djhg2000]

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.

Honestly, if we were to have "abuse by mods" then I think the vote counters would be the least of our issues. We need to be able to trust the mods no matter which features we have so I don't think that discussion belongs in this particular thread.

Back to the topic; with the disabling of downvotes, does that imply old downvotes are retroactively null and void, or will they stick around (hidden?) in case we enable them again?