>where people downvote everything except their own post, giving themselves an effective initial +2 score
Maybe do something similar in spirit to Slashdot's old policy that you can not moderate and comment in the same thread. Perhaps here that policy would ban you from downvoting posts in a thread if you commented in that thread?
Maybe do something similar in spirit to Slashdot's old policy that you can not moderate and comment in the same thread. Perhaps here that policy would ban you from downvoting posts in a thread if you commented in that thread?