Hi everyone!

This website looks great. Looking forward to being a part of the community! If you don't mind reading a little wall of text, I have a suggestion for the site, and any feedback is appreciated.

I sent an email to FAQ with basically a copy paste of below, but thought I might start a community discussion about it:

I'm coming from Reddit, and I'm sure you're aware of some of their "drama" regarding free speech vs hate speech. I read the "Etiquette on posting & commenting" section, and of course I have no problem with any of these guidelines. I was just curious how they would be enforced, if at all. If we're not planning on banning people (which I think we shouldn't), I have an idea which you may have already thought of: allowing an exceeding amount of reports of bad activity to a user result in a lowering of their reputation, or an increase in some other form of infamous reputation.

And if you could publicly display some normalized score of how much a troll/hater this person is, people could even filter out people below a certain threshold, etc. The default setting (especially for new users and guests to the site) could filter out (auto-shadow-ban) certain types of people, but if someone is curious, they could lower the filter setting or turn it off completely, and descend into the dark side. Of course you can still moderate the darker areas to prevent actually illegal activity, but at least you won't be censoring people, you'll just be putting them in an echo chamber.

Now that I think about it, the system would need a few key points. I think one user can give at the maximum only one negative point to any other user. So anyone's opinion of anyone else could only be "I like them", "I don't like them", or "I don't care". You could also limit the number of times you could dislike someone "1 unique user per day", which would prevent disliking someone the same weight as simply down-voting them. You'd have to think about who you "like" for the day, and you who "don't like". These would limit the effects of inevitable brigading. I think it will really drive people who hate a lot of things to become introspective. Some might be proud of their negative nancy badge and wear it with pride, but I think a lot of others will at least consider why so many people don't like what they have to say.

I'm sure there are many other ways to control and limit the power of this system, but I think it would be pretty unique, and pretty powerful.