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The data is accessible by nature, and we will probably soon have scripts and extension which will trigger a war of downvotes and counter-downvotes and bot attrition.
The easy solution to half of that is to just eliminate down votes. I don't think they're anywhere near as useful as people seem to want to believe.
I disagree with you.
I've seen downvoting used very often to very quickly make trolls, spam, and highly offensive attacks disappear at the bottom.
I've not seen that on the Fediverse yet, but I have definitely seen comments that were merely unpopular opinions being heavily downvoted.
I'm thinking this might be a nice user-configurable option. If you don't think downvotes are valuable, disable them for yourself and you'll see the site as if downvotes didn't exist. Maybe another option could eliminate voting entirely, which would solve the privacy concerns too.