for the record, my comment: "ok thank you for the kind words" has been downvoted to -1 HN mods/ownership: please remove the Downvote button. at best the staf

for the record, my comment: "ok thank you for the kind words" has been downvoted to -1 HN mods/ownership: please remove the Downvote button. at best the staff/mods should be able to exercise it. because it's well past the time where it's been shown to have been abused by its current users. My vote: HN should continue to attract and retain smart people, and kind people. It should not attract or retain assholes.