> And if someone could provide a reasoned... That's my point. To promote civility, respond to a person with a rebuttal (just like you did) and not a drive-by d

> And if someone could provide a reasoned... That's my point. To promote civility, respond to a person with a rebuttal (just like you did) and not a drive-by downvote. A downvote shouldn't come to mean "I disagree". I will say that there needs to be some mechanism that says "This comment does not meet the standards of HN" i.e. when someone posts something inflammatory or offensive. But that mechanism shouldn't deduct rep points until a certain threshold is met.