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I don’t really know what to say other at this moment other than I think the Point Cap for Downvotes should be a bit higher.

I do have a legit reason for this (I’ll write an essay on this when I’m off my vacation; you can actually gain points from abusing the downvote cap) but my own selfish reasoning for this is because I want my old childhood dupe account to have more than -40 points

For those who don’t know, after a certain amount of upvotes or downvotes you stop gaining/losing points. The downvote cap is much smaller than the 20 upvote point cap.

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How would you gain points from abusing the downvote cap?
I’ll touch in this when I’m not on vacation. But, it’s how blaziken managed to get so many points.
What is it currently? I believe the most downvotes Blaziken had on one post was 4, which I don't think reaches the cap.
My best guess is that some users like to up-vote posts when they see down-votes. In these cases, the up-votes raise your points, but the down-votes don't lower them.
I personally see no reason to change the downvote cap on points.  I'm order to even abuse this, you would need at least 4 downvotes on a single post (I believe 4 is the limit, but I could be wrong).  I believe that this is highly unlikely in its own right, but there is one main reason I think there is no reason to change this.
In order to benefit by something like net + 50 points, you would need to receive 9 sympathy upvotes on an answer.  You need 5 sympathy upvotes to even benefit at all (getting a net +10 points).  To me at least, this seems very unlikely that this would occur at all.  To benefit even greater, so many bad answers would have to be posted that you would get banned before anything could be accomplished.  It just seems like a lot of work for basically nothing in return.

I calculated Blaziken's points.  For a total of 90 answers, they have appeared to have gained 20 points (Calculating normally, they ended up 20 points below their point total.  I also believe it's much more likely that they recieved more than 4 downvotes on an answer, so that's why they have more points, not TY's theory of abusing the cap.
Ty's point isn't necessarily about posts with >4 downvotes and >4 upvotes, or that Blaziken deliberately abused the system to get points. It's just that having lots of posts with >4 downvotes will, over time, probably forgive you some amount of points.
However I agree with the sentiment that this is an extremely minor problem (in fact it's basically the intended effect of the system). Having >4 downvotes is rare in the first place, and as we've seen, anybody who looks like making this a real concern ends up banned. I really do not care how many points RR Blaziken has anyway.

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