Yes! I've been here since 2012 and it has gotten way worse. Especially when it comes to drug related articles. If you post a comment that is not 100 % positive

Yes! I've been here since 2012 and it has gotten way worse. Especially when it comes to drug related articles. If you post a comment that is not 100 % positive to legalizing drugs expect to be heavily down voted. But since people are dumb as shit and hoping that they will change is futile, why can't we have a setting that keeps down voted comments black? Since I'm reading HN on my phone, solving that problem with a user style doesn't work. If there was a karma opt-out setting entirely disabling the karma system for comments and all its effects I definitely would turn it on. I'd rather suffer some spammy comments now and then than partaking in Hacker News' dumb karma chasing game.