Downvotes, or as they called them "burying a post." Basically, in v4, they redid a large portion of the site, with many many bugs present, a UI that the majority of the users hated, and made it a better platform for advertising instead of making improvements to help the community. It was a problem that came about in part from them working towards making it something profitable (ala advertising) versus something the community built.
Here is a link on reddit that discusses it a bit more in depth than what I'm able to, since it's all second hand on my part.
I don't think anyone is suggesting scrapping the downvote (unless I missed it) - just trying to take steps to make sure it's used appropriately.
That's basically what digg did in version 4. And 3 days later they were history.
Did away with the down vote or tried to take other steps with it?
Downvotes, or as they called them "burying a post." Basically, in v4, they redid a large portion of the site, with many many bugs present, a UI that the majority of the users hated, and made it a better platform for advertising instead of making improvements to help the community. It was a problem that came about in part from them working towards making it something profitable (ala advertising) versus something the community built.
Here is a link on reddit that discusses it a bit more in depth than what I'm able to, since it's all second hand on my part.