Gladestrider wrote:
Since people don't have to worry anymore about being caught for maliciously rating down a post, I would imagine that some may tend to be much more free with the rate-downs.
The people who rate things down that they don't like aren't nearly the problem compared to the people who ***** every time they're rated down (usually justifiably)
A recent example is niobia, who, for every time she was rated down, PMed me that Katie rated her down in thread X (It wasn't Katie, over 90% of the time).
Or somebody on the FFXI forums who posted flame/ratedownwhine threads and then sent whine posts to *every single admin* when they got rated down. duuuuuh.
People who randomly rate down will continue doing so most likely, and ones who rate down for a purpose will continue doing so. It's not like it's at all obvious which is which anyway. At least now people won't get their panties in a bundle when someone rates down their 'spectacularly insightful' posts once.