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in reply to Re^4: RFC: Policy regarding abuses of the voting system
in thread RFC: Policy regarding abuses of the voting system

Having thought about it a bit more and having read the rest of the thread, here are the updates on my thoughts above:

The node I was thinking of that already discussed the systematic downvoting was in fact History now influences voting. So it seems like a policy like #1 has already been in place?

As for the wording of #1, I think using the various explanations you gave in this thread, like here and here, to expand upon the first point would probably be enough to make clear what the policy is intended to combat. Considering the mentioned punishments are fairly severe (XP is much harder to come by these days...), I also think it would be useful to clarify in the policy:

So since this is getting kind of complicated, an alternative suggestion would be to make the policy "abuses will be judged on a case-by-case basis after talking to the affected individuals" - which is pretty much the system I thought was already in place.

Codifying such things is not so easy! ;-)