Why the arbitrary “level” an RP member must attain to be allowed to downvote a comment? That is ignorant.

That prevents brand new members from coming onto the boards and throwing out downvotes until they have had enough time on the site to understand the norms of participation on RP.

Since you are new, Sir, if you have any Member of rally point say something derogatory to you, get a hold of SFC James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" or SSG Carlos Madden and those people online who were offensive to you can be censured or kicked out of rally point. I had some extremest person who said to me 'how in the heck did you ever become a commissioned officer?' The Insolent individual was a retired Major who could not handle honest differences of opinion or did not play well with others.That's just food for thought CMSgt (Join to see) PO3 Phyllis Maynard SPC Ryan D. SGM Erik Marquez CPL Douglas Chrysler CPL Douglas Chrysler CW5 Jack Cardwell CSM Charles Hayden SGM Steve Wettstein

It’s setup this way to prevent “troll farms” and undue influence from brand new accounts. PR firms and other companies out there actually hire people to post and vote online to push their specific agenda. They have scripts to follow for posting comments and to counter people adverse to their agenda. This is why the majority of comments you see on YouTube, Facebook, and media sites are from paid posters and completely fake. It’s the only way to prevent companies pushing agendas from creating a ton of new accounts to immediately affect opinion by downvoting.