up and down voting posts takes the community out of the hands of the founder and puts it at the mercy of the mob of invaders. this can't possibly work.

the founder should be able to ban the invaders rather than let them downvote his own content and upvote their spam / trolling.

if we allow democracy every community will be identical defeating the purpose of having separate communities.

poor quality threads should be eliminated by the moderators and the rest should be sorted based on how "active" the thread is.

there should be NO voting.

certainly people who are not part of the community should not be allowed to vote on anything in the community. approved members might be granted some voting privileges.