Hi @ura-soul,

I just came from another blog post (a proposal it was) and started to comment on one of the other commenters. But then I thought, I better direct it towards you. So here the comment which never made it to the one it was first directed to:)

I think @ura-soul's approach of (regularly?) publishing a list of downvotes is very good.

There is no judging involved in this, only the actions are shown. I thought the list he posted was impressive and you can make up your own mind. Account holders who regularly downvote blog posts reveal themselves through this all by themselves, if they are characterised by idelogical motives. The public display, if sustained and consistent, will have its long-term effect, I think.

The psychological effect of being exposed as a unilaterally motivated downvoter is, in my view, that one does not want to top this list or always be found on it.
On the downvoted side there will probably be an effect too, they too are exposed and will suspect that those who review the list will also scrutinise their posts.

In my view, this form of publicity is the best method, as it only shows the data from the outset and does not run the risk of accommodating one's own ideological content.

What the public then makes of it, the so-called community, is of course not something that can be influenced. ... It could just as well be that such a regularly published list leads to more rather than less quarrels. One cannot know that for sure.

But it seems to me that this is a rather elegant way of dealing with the issue - amongst other elegant ways which I don't know, probably.

Are you planing on publishing the downvoting-list on a regular basis? I think it was a good idea doing so.

Thank you and greetings