I propose that we should have some sort of bar to allow downvoting.
We seem to have a certain user who has been doing literally nothing but downvoting.
While this is little more than an annoyance. There's nothing stopping a herd of goats from showing up and manipulating the front page of our quaint little corner of the internet.
It's not the loss of imaginary points that I care about, it's the lack of visibility for the posts themselves.
How would we define participation? I like the idea of basing it on participation more than your amount of phuks taken, because you can lose the ability to downvote if you're brigaded. Then again, if we're basing it on the amount of posts/comments, its still pretty easy to get an account that can downvote.