Certainly, and one can still benefit if the comment is slightly grayed out and lower on the page. I'm suggesting that allowing the asocial behavior of small nu

Certainly, and one can still benefit if the comment is slightly grayed out and lower on the page. I'm suggesting that allowing the asocial behavior of small number of random strangers to ruin your day is likely to result in lots of ruined days. Better, if you can mentally arrange it, is to treat some small number of downvotes as the price of admission rather than a personal attack, and to continue the conversation with those who are listening. The hard part is figuring out which downvotes are actually useful feedback, and which should be treated as random noise. This wasn't my point above, though. My point was that I like chimeracoder's long detailed comments, and would like him to keep writing them, regardless of the behavior he observes in others.