| CGI-Quality said: Not that anything is final, but things will most likely end up like this….. |
Speaking as a "supporter", I'd say that removing perks should not be done without a lot of notice. If you sell people on 2x, 3x, 4x voting power, you gotta give them that. If you want to do away with it, maybe take it off the list of perks but keep it active for a year so that nobody that bought in gets the stuff they paid for removed in the middle of their subscription.
Also, how does it make sense to give 2/3/4x upvote ability, but not with downvotes? Off the top of my head, I'd say remove both or neither.
In the interest of full disclosure, I do make use of my 3x voting power both up and down. I didn't use the downvote option very much until recently, but I definitely have increased my use of the feature in recent months. I think that's mostly because it just feels like the way things are moving, so I've gone along for the ride. It is almost like I feel like I have to do it, otherwise things are out of balance. Of course, I recognize that if I'm doing it, others probably are too, and that this puts us in a downward spiral. Hopefully, I'm not a terrible abuser of the system. I don't feel like I am.
As I mentioned in a previous comment, I don't support changes *at this moment*, but I do understand that things are getting weird. How about starting with a pinned post along the lines of "Stop weaponizing downvotes".
