For one thing, there is a difference between disagreement and “overall quality” (good faith, well reasoned, etc), and this division already exists in comments. So maybe it is a good idea to have this feature for posts as well, and only have disciplinary actions taken against posts that meet some low/negative threshold for “overall quality”.
Further, having multiple tiers of moderation/community-regulatory action in response to “overall quality” (encompassing both things like karma and explicit moderator action) seem good to me, and this comment limitation you describe seems like just another tier in such a system, one that is above “just ban them”, but below “just let them catch the lower karma from other users downvoting them”.
It’s possible that, lacking the existence of the tier you are currently on, the next best tier you’d be rounded-off to would be getting banned. (I haven’t read your stuff, and so I’m not suggesting either way that this should or should not be done in your case).
If you were downvoted for good faith disagreement, and are now limited/penalized, then yeah that’s probably bad and maybe a split voting system as mentioned would help. But its possible you were primarily downvoted for the “overall quality” aspect.
For one thing, there is a difference between disagreement and “overall quality” (good faith, well reasoned, etc), and this division already exists in comments. So maybe it is a good idea to have this feature for posts as well, and only have disciplinary actions taken against posts that meet some low/negative threshold for “overall quality”.
Further, having multiple tiers of moderation/community-regulatory action in response to “overall quality” (encompassing both things like karma and explicit moderator action) seem good to me, and this comment limitation you describe seems like just another tier in such a system, one that is above “just ban them”, but below “just let them catch the lower karma from other users downvoting them”.
It’s possible that, lacking the existence of the tier you are currently on, the next best tier you’d be rounded-off to would be getting banned. (I haven’t read your stuff, and so I’m not suggesting either way that this should or should not be done in your case).
If you were downvoted for good faith disagreement, and are now limited/penalized, then yeah that’s probably bad and maybe a split voting system as mentioned would help. But its possible you were primarily downvoted for the “overall quality” aspect.