I want that! What is the medication?

I relate to that. I think some of the ills of reddit will inevitably be replicated here because they are just artifacts of scale. Like the good-luck-getting-a-comment-heard-if-you-don’t-get-in-early effect.

What you say about upvotes vs downvotes flies against how hierarchy inherently works. If you push something upward everything else moves downward relative to that. If you push something downward everything else moves upward relative to it.

That idea you describe doesn’t work very well when it’s not easy for users to move.