Yes, that’s an obvious solution, but placing yourself in that situation is unnecessary, and implementing the amendment you suggest is a waste of time where the situation could be avoided in the first place.
You seem to be thinking of things from the point of view of ‘I don’t want to suddenly find I can’t downvote’, where I’m thinking of it from the point of view of ‘what is likely to lead to the most informative karma scores’. I don’t think you’re wrong given where you seem to be coming from but I’m not looking at it from the same perspective.
Yes, that’s an obvious solution, but placing yourself in that situation is unnecessary, and implementing the amendment you suggest is a waste of time where the situation could be avoided in the first place.
You seem to be thinking of things from the point of view of ‘I don’t want to suddenly find I can’t downvote’, where I’m thinking of it from the point of view of ‘what is likely to lead to the most informative karma scores’. I don’t think you’re wrong given where you seem to be coming from but I’m not looking at it from the same perspective.