Again. How do you misuse a downvote system?
It’s literally a “I don’t like this post” button. If enough people don’t like it, it gets buried.
All having a post being buried accomplishes is greying it out and making you click a little warning that says “this post got buried, wanna read it anyway?”
As you can see here: #PullTheRipcord
The entire topic is readable, Timbo can still post freely. People just buried his post with flags (specifically RL threat flags, which have a far lower threshold, meaning it only needs like half a dozen flags to bury it).