Cool! So glad that your antenanne are stright up on these issues, as well.
I would be worried about a thousand downvoting wars breaking out, though...but I'm sure you've thought of that. I'll be very interested in hearing out your details...
Yeah, I won’t get into any of the details yet, but obviously that will be one of the main factors to consider.
In my opinion downvoting wars will be self limiting. In any solution with increased downvoting there would probably be some wars initially as people get comfortable and seek to establishe the new social rules and find the limits of revised expectations.
But ultimately downvoting is costly and they will probably find a better way to work out their differences.
Over time the threat of downvoting may become more important than the actual downvoting, with actual downvotes rarely occuring, but also less abusive upvoting of low-value content (i.e. people self-police more, because they know if they don't the downvotes are more likely to come).
But we can discuss further once @timcliff lets us know more about what he has in mind.