Forgive me if I am ignorant, but wouldn't the suggestions above simply accomplish a similar (and theoretically, more user friendly) version of this function you noted?
"There are also scripts available to automatically downvote accounts' posts or comments."
Should using your own influence tokens to entirely counter someone else's influence tokens indiscriminately be user-friendly? I mention it as a possibility, not as a recommendation.
Indeed, you did. It seems to me that if we make it possible via script, it might as well be fully supported (or removed). Having it be partially controlled by a technical barrier to entry seems to me, at best, a half- or temporary-measure.
I agree.
It's more about being correct or not. Planes aren't user-friendly but they can't be to accomplish what they are build to accomplish.
It is the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do?
I understand your concern. I think they is more ups than downs to this proposition and that's more of an educated guest on my part than a absolute truth.