I guess a return of "don't show this page in my results" could work better: it removes the worst results and it's hard to fake, no influencer is going to pay to downvote 200 pages and if they do, it would be easy to see that same user downvoted everything everything at random, without even clicking trough to read.
Helps for both search users and the platform. Like a free moderation service. Why have an employee too check if these pages should be removed if a crowd of tracked users can do it.
I wonder where is my view wrong because I wonder why isn't there such system yet...
You'd still have to deal with adversarial spam. Competitor A pays a botnet to visit and downvote Competitor B's links at will, thus tanking its ranking.
In order to detect malicious activity you'd have to use a bunch of other signals, and also to use the downvotes with some suspicion, so you're back at looking content quality, reputation, page speed, and many other signals. Which sounds very similar to status quo.
Personally I'd like to see some sort of explicit input. If not used collectively, at least to customize my own results, like it happens on YT/Netflix/Instagram/etc - e.g. "never show results again from this site", or "I dislike this type of content".
Helps for both search users and the platform. Like a free moderation service. Why have an employee too check if these pages should be removed if a crowd of tracked users can do it.
I wonder where is my view wrong because I wonder why isn't there such system yet...