Excuse me? How do you figure?

Suppose this Evil Conspiracy were to decide to "vote you out of existence". Two of them maliciously vote down an otherwise good post. The third fires his -- from across the grassy knoll. Oh no! Down three --!

Meanwhile, 5 people have voted it up. (This is supposed to be a good post, right?)

In other words, this doesn't make it any easier for a small group of users to vote anything out of existence. It still takes a clear majority of voters voting against you to make any difference. All this does is make the penalty for receiving -- as large as the reward for ++ votes. How is that in any way, shape, or form unfair?

As for the "downvote limit" -- WTF?? Uh-uh. Completely unreasonable. When you vote in an election for state and city initiatives, do you have a limit on how many you can vote "no" on? No! The limit on downvoting is ridiculous. No "shadow conspiracy" can make that big of a dent in your XP unless the conspiracy had a large number of members - and if that many people are upset, then I think there's another problem.