Agreed, it's an important subject and believe me I don't think it's being ignored or down played.
It's funny you should bring up digg, because that is the perfect example of a team of admins that did everything wrong. They saw a problem with their system that sadly couldn't handle being gamed, as well as no active solution on how to absorb the effects of the problem. So instead of tweaking the system, and working towards allowing the community to mitigate the issue they completely overhauled it, gave themselves all the power and cut out the community all together. This ended really badly for them.
So, I think the goal here is to approach it from an angle that empowers the community by building the foundation and creating the tools that are capable in off-setting the negative effects of the negative/abusive minority.
Agreed, it's an important subject and believe me I don't think it's being ignored or down played.
It's funny you should bring up digg, because that is the perfect example of a team of admins that did everything wrong. They saw a problem with their system that sadly couldn't handle being gamed, as well as no active solution on how to absorb the effects of the problem. So instead of tweaking the system, and working towards allowing the community to mitigate the issue they completely overhauled it, gave themselves all the power and cut out the community all together. This ended really badly for them.
So, I think the goal here is to approach it from an angle that empowers the community by building the foundation and creating the tools that are capable in off-setting the negative effects of the negative/abusive minority.