2. Even if a spammer or a account farmer up voted a post other people can down vote it. So total votes will be based on majority. Spamming will be harder.
How much does it cost to make an account? Nothing
What kind of email validation do we use? Nothing
The majority will be the account farmers and spammers. The legitimate users like myself would be drowned out.
People would use their army of accounts to down vote their competition. :/
That is exactly what my point was by this:
1.Replacing the merit system with "Up vote & Down vote" or "Positive & Negative karma" system like in Reddit and Steemit will be the most wise decision.
2.Every member(or higher than jr.member) should be allowed to up vote or down vote a post or a reply.
Yeah! So that people with hundreds of accounts start spamming the threads with up & down votes as there are not limits on creating accounts on the forum and there should be no restrictions for anyone as per your solution. I think there can be no better way of spoiling the forum than this.