Please

I just want to post a “me too” to this. Having a human tell me when I've done something to elicit a reaction - good or bad - carries infinitely more weight than passive-aggressive externalities codified in software. The moderation style on this site, sadly unusual as it is in this day and age, works better than anything else I've seen.

We don't have an endemic unchecked plague of trolls here partly because it doesn't present a UI up front that sets expectations that they're part of the system. I can guarantee the second something with countable numbers were to be added, there'd be crowds trying to gamify it in all directions — it's already bad enough when I see a large user ID or reply count and brace for the worst.

(Here's where I'd apologise for veering so far off topic, but I think arguing over software-political DNS hijacking is a horse that's already been flogged into dust.)