I respectfully disagree with this proposal*. A lot of the reasoning for such a system appears to deal with wasting votes, which is going to be the only bullet point i comment on.
Before you downvote a node, go to Worst Nodes and see if that node is already there. You can see the node rep on that page without having to vote for it. Also, before you downvote a node, ask yourself "Wouldn't this vote be better spent as a ++ on a node deserving of such?" Trolls don't eat votes, but they do eat disk space and bandwidth (which i don't think this proposal will solve as people still feed trolls even if they do realize it). Isn't our Consideration Process fully capable of labeling troll-ish posts?
* ++ from me for posting a well thought-out proposal, but i still hope the idea is not implemented :)
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