Issue

Increasing popularity in Moons and activity on the sub has led to prolific cultural issues with downvoting.

The downvoting is most visible on new posts and the daily, in some cases every comment on a post is voted into negative karma.

This is often corrected as posts go ‘hot’ and get more exposure, but users are suffering unreasonable karma loss from malicious actors.

Ultimately, the karma multiplier in CCIP-001 exacerbates this issue as negative karma is amplified.

Users have suggested removing the downvote button, but I don’t agree. It’s not a functional issue, and there is genuine use cases for the button. It’s a behavioural issue.

Proposal

Amend CCIP-001 to remove the negative karma multiplier to mitigate loss due to serial downvoting.

This amendment means, if successful, comments with positive karma would continue to receive a 2x multiplier, while comments with negative karma would not.

For example: a comment with +3 karma at snapshot would result in a +6 distribution, but a comment with -3 karma would remain as -3.

The change would best be represented by the formula: final_comment_karma = max(comment_karma, 2*comment_karma)

Pros: The change would go some way in preserving karma distribution for users being unfairly targeted by malicious actors.

Cons: There is a small risk a threshold change may reinforce negative behaviour and further drive negative karma if more people behave that way or create more accounts to abuse the system. So, instead of losing a small amount of karma each time, the loss could be amplified.

Special thanks: I’d like to add a special thank you to u/OminousAnemone for supporting the development of this proposal.

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Proposal by: u/CryptoScamee42069

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