I have downvoted after thinking about the question for few moments..

I usually write questions and answers but I know what represents them poor and good. I had downvoted cause it doesn't look good to me.. I will write an answer whenever I get time... I am drafting now whenever I get time I will post... I completely don't disagree with the idea but I care about your knowledge. The downvote is to show your knowledge.

I thought so I couldn't write the whole answer... I will re-edit my draft later...

deleted user Especially if implemented as I suggested in my self-answer, a single downvote won't matter much even for a brand new user account. Single votes will only actually make a significant difference for a user who is already right at a threshold, in which case there's probably something that can be done to some of their posts to bring them clearly past the threshold. The specific scheme I suggest would only actually have a significant impact on users who are, in a sense, "repeat offenders" of posting very low quality content, and the interim post count cap is specifically there so that even such users will be able to post occasionally. Also, I am not singling out particular users here, but let's face it, it doesn't take much time browsing around the various Codidact sites to see that there are users who relatively consistently make poorly-received contributions, and that downvotes alone don't seem to deter them. At that point, IMO some form of technical hobbling makes sense.