upvoting friends
This should be encouraged - its' one of the greatest strengths that humans have over bots in this environment. I would also like to be able to more easily down-vote foes. When I say foes, I am referring to spammers. To me, spammers are those that post content with little or no added value.
Agreed on all points. This is why I've suggested solutions in the past repeatedly, such as not requiring flags to use the same voting power as upvotes. Instead, we continue to force people to pay to regulate spam...gee, that couldn't go wrong.