I'm all for the change and looking forward to it, but there are a lot of spammers who have built up rep that can cost hundreds of even a thousand dollars or more in downvotes to get them below zero.

Even a (25) account takes a decent amount of downvotes to zero out, with free accounts easy to make it's not harder to suppress the spam than it is to create it. There are also other issues that are not solved, like notifications still get flooded with this spam, ginabot notifications, the fact they still show up in your replies.

When you have been fighting abuse as long as I have, this is what you get to look forward to.

Each one of these is a reply to anyone who comments on my posts or replies to my comments. Some days I can't even use /recent_replies or notifications.