we end up in the same place as before with very superlinear.
It would require some one substantially invested to keep a rein on the greedy.
Several somebodies would likely have to take one for the team.
It would have to be a community thing, no way the idea passes the gate keepers, no offense.
It appears that stinc has pushed us through a one way gate.
Smdh.
There isn't a lot of support for superlinear now that is true. It would work better with cheap downvotes I agree there. Even the original n^2 with no whale experiment probably would have worked better with cheap downvotes. The original white paper talks about downvoters pulling down the top overpaid posts (the famous crab bucket analogy), but in reality it rarely ever happened because the cost of doing so was too high. Address that and even unmodified n^2 might be significantly better.
The farther we get from the original design the more it looks like we've jumped the shark.
Why the resistence to calling flags downvotes and separating them from reputation?
The obstanancy attached to this simple change is telling, imo.
Well said