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I see plenty of disagreement, but not a great deal of ridicule. It sounded like you were insinuating that fears people do have of being without health insurance

I see plenty of disagreement, but not a great deal of ridicule. It sounded like you were insinuating that fears people do have of being without health insurance are unfounded. This was not a popular opinion. It happens. I got a -20 once before the -4 limit was imposed and I'm still not quite sure why it was such a hot button. We're an opinionated bunch and we like to play rough when it comes to reason and insight, but from what I can tell, its always done in a spirit of camaraderie and respect. If you want to see public ridicule in action, take a gander at 4chan.

palish 17y ago
You're right. I'm not quite sure why I felt so strongly negative just then. I think it's because capping downvoting to -4 is still too low. I really wish downvoting was capped at 0. That way, comments still get filtered to the bottom, but people who get downvoted (and spent ~20 minutes writing the comment) don't feel like they just wasted their time for no reason at all. Seeing my (interesting, if inflammatory) comment at -4 when a ridiculing reply was at 5 just set me off.