Really? It seems to me that downvotes are used very negatively, as they are put a strong incentive (for most people) not to express unpopular opinions, even if they are good comments. If they were used only to discourage low quality posts, it wouldn&#x27;t change a lot, since the most upvoted comments would still be to the top.<p>He suggests to remove lives for spam&#x2F;harassment, not for shitposting. So basically, positive loop+ draconian enforcement of essential rules, and no negative loop.