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You are using "some people misuse a thing" as a rationale to get rid of the thing.
If someone posts fetish x on a vanilla community, they should get downvoted. If they post that same thing in a community about fetish x, then the community can simply be blocked by those so inclined.
This is the important part:
We don't need a "go away, you're ugly" button. That's what blocking is for.
Hm... what if downvoting was weighted only 1/10th as much as upvoting? So a few downvotes here and there from people doing it wrong wouldn't amount to anything in others' view, but if a post is heavily downvoted due to being in the wrong community or low effort, that's visible?
Maybe? I dunno. Turning off downvotes seems like a pretty simple solution. Trying to come up with complex ways to make it hurt just the right amount doesn't seem like it'll work in all cases.
It's called fine-tuning, and if everyone gave up that easily, many domains would suffer, like medicine, architecture, manufacturing design etc. Don't be afraid of something simply because the ideal fix is more complicated than 2+2.