Merge pull request #594 from vaniver/master

Shuts off downvotes by always raising a notenoughkarma error. Fixes #592
bellroy · Dec 1, 2016 · 791c76a · 791c76a
2 parents 4823988 + fed1c26
commit 791c76a
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/r2/r2/models/account.py b/r2/r2/models/account.py
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@ def check_downvote(self, vote_kind):
         This makes the assumption that the user can't cast a vote for something
         on the non-current subreddit.
         """
+
+        raise NotEnoughKarma('Downvoting temporarily disabled.')
         from r2.models.vote import Vote, Link, Comment
 
         def get_cached_downvotes(content_cls):