Really, HN? Parent might not be a _popular_ opinion, but the parent stated the opinion in a mature, non-inflammatory manner. Communities go downhill quickly whe

Really, HN? Parent might not be a _popular_ opinion, but the parent stated the opinion in a mature, non-inflammatory manner. Communities go downhill quickly when a certain "critical mass" of users get downvote rights, and downvoting becomes a poor proxy for intelligent discourse. It is deeply frustrating when a cool community such as HN increasingly stifles reasoned debate with the split second, zero cost decision of downvoting a comment you don´t agree with. Remove downvoting, or increase the cost of downvoting (as in, one downvote will cost you 5 karma points, or something like that) because the HN I grew to enjoy is quickly starting to look like just another subreddit. edit: typos