Comment voting is going to get addressed. Yeah, there have been people who have gone on downvote rampages against other people, and it's pretty easy for us to identify those. We're going to fix that. I'm honestly spread a little thin right now handling other tasks (like the NZXT live stream, onboarding two new employees, migration to AWS, and some other yet-to-be-seen stuff). There's also some long-standing usability issues I really want to address, like comment nesting continuations, ability to find new comments posted on a thread easily, etc.

Comment voting I don't think is as clear-cut as what we call "root object" voting (guides, completed builds, etc.) It's perfectly valid for someone to vote on every comment in a topic if they want to. They could downvote once, or half the comments in a thread, etc. Both could have valid scenarios. So in the middle it gets into a gray area where you ask if the voting is abuse or just prolific voting. And if it's abuse, what to do? Do you limit downvotes? I have my reservations on that.

Instead I think what's likely to happen is that only a certain number of downvotes will affect a user's overall karma score. So even if user A downvotes user B comments 1,000 times, maybe it only drops their karma by 5. Possibly likewise on the upvotes. In that situation, your karma is better reflected by the feedback on your comments from a wider range of people than just a few prolific voters. (This would also dramatically cut back on people creating a few alt accounts to mass upvote/downvote things. They'd have to do that across many more accounts to get the same effect, making it easier to identify.)

What if you polity ask already long-time members (who are in your profile friends list) to upvote you. Would that imoly the same thing?