Once their reputation score exceeds yours, your downvote can't even touch them.
This is true. BIG PROBLEM. Scammers gain rep every day and honest folks lose the power to stop it.
We need to make a case for the witnesses / devs to buff downvotes so this is no longer a thing. There were reasons they made the system asymmetrical but think we have reached a point where it needs to be evaluated in light of present abuses.
I'm new to this whole thing but have been thinking a lot about the flag issue. Shouldn't all flags have equal weight, or at least a basic minimum? If three people at 30 Rep flag a 78 Rep, shouldn't that be (-30-30-30=-90) instead of SUM(30<78,30<78,30<78)=NOTHING?
The weight of your flag is only based on your sp.... Nothing to do with rep at all