New words should start out with more than 1 point

[teleological]

acolotl: Sometimes it seems people downvote words for no reason whatsoever.
acolotl: Even with completely normal words.
durka42: this happens anywhere a downvote button is provided :p
acolotl: Yeah, but here it causes the words not to show up.

durka42: a word could start with more than 1 vote initially
durka42: like, I dunno, 5
acolotl: Yeah, at this point even 3 would make a big difference.

[lagleki]

I think in order to downvote successfully one must fill in an inputbox with a non-empty string.

[lagleki]

I suggest upvotes = 5 as the starting level.

[pne]

Downvote requiring a non-empty string in an initially-empty box sounds like a good idea to me, too, to prevent "votes" from spiders or browsers that "helpfully" pre-fetch all links on a page in case the user wants to click on them at some point.