This is a VERY important topic, as I've said many times before.
We should spend approximately 1000X as many hours thinking, researching, and discussing this problem than we spend on "becoming experts on the Crisis in the Church", including the Pope question. If everyone followed my advice, there would be a lot less apostate children because parents would spend time learning about the world, parenting, psychology, getting to know their children and spending time with them, educating them about the world, etc. instead of arguing online about the status of the Pope.
I trimmed the thread AGAIN, this time removing any trace of discussion about the CathInfo reputation system and past CathInfo trolls who have been banned. It is a distraction from such an important topic that needs to be discussed!
I will correct some members: It's more like 1 in 7 (14%) that is the limit for downvotes. So if you have 100 downvotes, your worst enemy can only inflict 14 downvotes on you, and he's done. And if you really aren't a troll with horribly counter-Trad opinions, that enemy is going to be waiting a long time for others to give you downvotes. DO NOT think of them as official demerits, warnings, "strikes" (like on Youtube, where Youtube officials give you 3 strikes and then they ban you). It's the opposite! Any idiot can give you a certain number. So below a certain point, they are "noise level" and treated as such. I can always tell the difference between "normal wear and tear" and "this person is a troll and might need to be banned".
No offense to anyone, but my system of throttling the downvotes to 14% has worked *perfectly* thus far -- and you'd have to have information I don't have to convince me otherwise.
Don't worry, I haven't got one wrong yet. I don't even base my moderating and banning decisions on reputation score. The Rep score is one of about 20 factors I consider when deciding to ban a person or not. Long story short, don't worry about your Rep score.