Is there anything that keeps sock puppets from voting?
The limit on total downvotes proportional to karma gives you more than you'll ever need unless you're planning to downvote the world, but it does make it significantly harder to manage a sockpuppet army.
You could potentially use sockpuppets to vote more than once on someone's posts, if you feel so inclined, but all your socks would individually have to be productive contributors in good standing, and you're limited by your total contributions in the same way. If we're talking hundreds of total downvotes, pushing socks' individual contributions into undetectable territory would entail tedious account management and some pretty serious compromises in terms of status on your main account. I can think of a couple ways of finessing this with automated help, but they're pretty fragile and easily detected.
You could potentially use sockpuppets to vote more than once on someone's posts, if you feel so inclined, but all your socks would individually have to be productive contributors in good standing
Sockpuppets boost one another. If you have, say, five sockpuppets, each post by one of them immediately gets +4 karma.
Below is a message I just got from jackk. Some specifics have been redacted 1) so that we can discuss general policy rather than the details of this specific case 2) because presumption of innocence, just in case there happens to be an innocuous explanation to this.
So... thoughts? I have mod powers, but when I was granted them I was basically just told to use them to fight spam; there was never any discussion of any other policy, and I don't feel like I have the authority to decide on the suitable course of action without consulting the rest of the community.