Dutch site tweakers.net has an interesting solution to this. When you engage in excessive opinion voting, where you downvote only because you disagree, whilst the comment in itself is valid (not harmful, high quality)...you get a voting ban.
The voting ban is handed out by volunteer moderators whom scan for such comments. They tend to stick out, so easy to find. Likely a relatively small group is so emotional in voting.
The only problem of such an involved system is that it may take a day before comment votes are returned to their "fair" state. The question is if it still matters then, as people have moved on to the next topic.
The voting ban is handed out by volunteer moderators whom scan for such comments. They tend to stick out, so easy to find. Likely a relatively small group is so emotional in voting.
The only problem of such an involved system is that it may take a day before comment votes are returned to their "fair" state. The question is if it still matters then, as people have moved on to the next topic.