Thank you for the tip. Curiously, the original message sparked a lot of commentary and it seems like lots of people here are feeling the pain of "unjust" moder

Thank you for the tip. Curiously, the original message sparked a lot of commentary and it seems like lots of people here are feeling the pain of "unjust" moderation sometimes. Sometimes I also play the "fuck it, let them mod me down, I'll just say it" game - I expect to be buried and that's fine -(although people tend to heavily up vote maverick comments). But sometimes modding takes me by complete surprise - "Wtf, why did I they mod me down?".. For some reason, I tend to internalize negative feedback from random strangers a lot more than I internalize the positive feedback.. And I feel like I'm not the only one doing this, which is a bit of a relief :). But my original comment wasn't necessarily a complaint about the status quo here on HN - some hiccups aside, it's still the most civilized and wise forum online.. What worries me is that we still haven't figured the public forum thing out and some versions of it are plain dangerous (eg. forums on certain news websites tend to degenerate into racism, hatred, bigotry, etc). The up/down vote paradigm seems to have reached it's peak, we need a new way to collectively filter thoughts.