I agree with Dagon and the others who said this that if it is going to take a significant amount of time to fix what needs to be fixed, it would be better to disable downvoting completely, at least temporarily, if that can be done easily. Of course it would be better if people didn’t care so much about karma. But that is not a thing which is easily changed, and we can see from this post that people really do quit for that reason.
I agree with Dagon and the others who said this that if it is going to take a significant amount of time to fix what needs to be fixed, it would be better to disable downvoting completely, at least temporarily, if that can be done easily. Of course it would be better if people didn’t care so much about karma. But that is not a thing which is easily changed, and we can see from this post that people really do quit for that reason.