dislike an artists work 3 or 5 times and that artist is put on your filter. (automatically)
Setting a fixed number creates an issue of scale - downvoting 5 images from an artist who has 20 means you downvoted 25% of their works, which can be significant. Downvoting 5 images from an artist who has 1000 means you downvoted half a percent of their work, which is nothing.
We can see who votes on our work. That would allow us to catch people who reset their filter.
This will never happen. Votes are intentionally private.
I also believe that we should remove the down vote feature for anons. (because “those” people will try and cheat this system.)
You need to have an account for voting. Guest users cannot vote.
If you suspect someone / a few people are mass-downvoting your images, you can report an image and ask the staff to take a look at it. Though it’s also worth noting that if someone is mass-downvoting a specific tag/query, or if they’re using multiple accounts to downvote the same images multiple times, the site is able to detect that and automatically flag it for staff review.