I read that post and I agree with it 100%. With the vote slider I can in essence tip my cap or I can push real value when I see real value. I've tried to really start to watch my voting habits, as I don't want to play favorites. I've been trying to spend more time in "new" as a result.

This r4 guy is definitely not helping things here. I've had a lot of people reach out to me and it appears that we have lost a good amount of new users because of his actions. This is what got me thinking about how we could discourage this sort of behavior. I just think it's way too easy for someone to do what r4 is doing right now, and so I've begun trying to reverse a lot of what he's done.