The takers will always outvote the makers unless the rules specifically prohibit that.
You have to be proactive in setting community rules to prevent that. Preemptive authoritarianism, to be a wiseass about it. It is a contradiction to what we want to believe as folks that believe in liberty, but unless the nannystaters and do-gooders are locked out of a system, they WILL ruin it.
R. Conquest, who studied genocide in Russia under communism, had 3 laws of politics, one of which is
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
Nicely put Steve, if we can preempt their attempts to coop the platform we can keep them from destroying it.