Originally Posted by
jackal
I place more weight on the argument of someone who actively uses the feature elsewhere but believes it will not add to the community here, in which case, I would like to know that person's specific reasoning for his or her position.
Are there any discussion sites which allow posts to be upvoted but not downvoted, and which do not compile an upvote count per member? That is a milder voting system than anything I have seen on the Internet.
Experience with harsher systems would be relevant only if the objections related to the milder subset of functionality.