Is there no way you can change the site to only permit rating priveledges for users who post in the relevent thread? I notice a lot of threads recently which have been rated down fairly quickly within a very small time frame. It would not be a problem except your site tends to discriminate against posters who reach default status. Perhaps forcing these vultures to put their necks on the line will prevent them from caring so much what a thread says that they disagree so much with. Unless of course you value the opinion of a coward who is too afraid to post a viewpoint relevent to the topic and arbitrarily judges others by his own unstated view. I once asked the admins to eliminate the karma issue completely, you argued that it was not possible/did not want to/ps2 limitations, so here is middle ground. Please limit/restrict members from rating threads/posts unless they put themselves at risk for the same treatment.
Edited, Dec 13th 2008 5:58pm by Soulrunner
Edited, Dec 13th 2008 7:44pm by Darqflame