I really like ideas like this, we can definitely benefit from playing around with different reputation and governance systems. And with many other things.
It's possible to test out the idea right away. Almost all the needed tools already exist. Here is one way it can be done:
- Create a community (or use an existing community) which would be the testing ground
- Add people to the community, preferably those interested in experimenting with the idea
- Make a poll that has no end date and that allows voting on up to 50 choices. Each poll choice would be the name of the account you are voting for.
- For downvotes, make another similar poll that allows voting on up to 3 choices.
- Make the polls restricted so that only members of the community can vote on them.
That's it. If you are interested, I can assist with any aspect of setting it up. I would be quite happy to participate in the experiment also, and tell others about it as well.
That's a good idea. The only thing is how many options will the poll support? I don't know the answer.
It can support a whole bunch of choices, that shouldn't be an issue.