I really like the idea of a karma floor. Under some threshold (100, maybe higher), downvotes don’t count against you. You could provide a report to admins showing posters who would be hugely negative without this, so they can take administrative action against the serious problems. I’d love to see per-post and per-comment floors as well—no comment should get much below −15 unless it’s pure spam or hatred, in which case the moderator should remove it.
I really like the idea of a karma floor. Under some threshold (100, maybe higher), downvotes don’t count against you. You could provide a report to admins showing posters who would be hugely negative without this, so they can take administrative action against the serious problems. I’d love to see per-post and per-comment floors as well—no comment should get much below −15 unless it’s pure spam or hatred, in which case the moderator should remove it.