There was a time when messages didn't have scores. ;)

I like the idea of the score modifying placement in the comment tree, but not being visible. I also like the idea of a more expressive score (maybe normalized), I suppose like the emoji systems do, to indicate funny, angry, etc, rather than some silly binary.

It's the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though.

I think this makes the very big assumption that the average user uses third party apps. All of the polls on reddit, that I saw, suggested this is not true. For example.

but all the edits made me reconsider
not worry about how many people up/down-ticked our comment.

The first was an afterthought that I wanted to include. The second was because I realized my time trying Voat was close to the hate subs that the majority of the comments here are about. Neither were about up/down.

The last one was a lighthearted joke. I thought the last few sentences of it would make that clear. With an empty /m/funny and /m/jokes, and a /m/memes full of constipation, I'm beginning to suspect my humor may not be well align here.

your ridiculous all or nothing speculation

How is it ridiculous? It's my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with this and several other platforms, to a question that requires speculation about the future.

Are you going to downvote all of the people saying it will succeed? Wtf?