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Dir auths should vote about Invalid like they do about BadExit

Right now only three dir auths put BadExit in their known-flags, so it takes any 2 of those 3 to give a relay the BadExit flag, which causes an exit relay to not be used by clients for exiting. This is a great convenience for the dir auth operators, since otherwise we'd have to get a majority of all nine (i.e. five) dir auth operators to declare that a relay shouldn't be used for exiting, and we'd be much less agile in response to detected bad behavior.

In comparison, all nine relays put Valid in their known-flags, so it takes a full 5 of the 9 to give a relay the Valid flag -- or said another way, it takes a full 5 of the 9 to take it away.

In the context of malicious HSDir roles, this lack of agility is hurting us. We should explore ways to make !invalid more like !badexit.

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