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This should be handled by (auto)mod tools, allowing good faith users to help filter non-fitting or low quality posts, and preventing bad actors from downvote fireworks.

There are possibilities to limit available downvotes either by throttling amount per time/community/instance/user, by demanding to have a certain “reputation” in the community/instance or by making downvote cost your own “reputation”.

None of the above is perfect, but IMO outright removing a right to disagree is against community interests.

Currently I can either leave a “harassment” comment: “wtf this is doing in this community”, make complain to a mod (if there is any active), or ignore the post. Neither help community grow stronger, I think.

I think screenshots are kind of normalized already. They are detached from the original and we accept that we can’t alter those. Integration, however, is another thing as we can now define how in sync it should be. Anyway, even our chat is already proof of the point :-)

Yeah, I think in technical sense the best way is to retrieve the linked post as some package (ZIPped JSON, for example) and cache it for a while. And then check once in a while if the original has changed. So you can display latest available version of the original was removed.

However, this way sparks another conversation about if original author have a right to take his words back (remove/edit the post).

There is a potential problem with deleted posts, however. Basically, screenshot is less likely to be removed than post. Same issue as with leaving hyperlinks vs. copying content.