:) I mostly mean downvotes without an explanation, which you discerned. Technically, a drive-by downvote would be a subset of "downvoting without an explanatio

:) I mostly mean downvotes without an explanation, which you discerned. Technically, a drive-by downvote would be a subset of "downvoting without an explanation," since you're not always drive-by downvoting if you're not giving an explanation. Some comments just don't belong, and those comments are normally obvious. I often get the impression that the downvoters did not read a comment too carefully, quickly passed judgment without thinking about it too much, downvoted, then moved on. Hence, the other reason I call them drive-by downvotes. It is annoying to see a reasonable comment downvoted to 0, or less. I feel like I'm missing something and what I'm missing is an explanation. Why was the comment voted down? Then the comment gets voted up. I'll never know why the comment was downvoted, and it feels like a small loss. What's happening here can play out in different scenarios. So, that's it. I wish there was more explaining going on, and perhaps people would be less disposed to pass thoughtless judgment. It is what it is. The submitter asked for our thoughts about the downvote system, so if there's one thing that I'm going to complain about -- and I don't mean to say that this is a horrible, horrible phenomenon -- it's drive-by downvotes.