This is how similar site Lobste.rs works. From the “About Lobste.rs” page (https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about) > ## Downvote Explanations > Often

This is how similar site Lobste.rs works. From the “About Lobste.rs” page (https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about) > ## Downvote Explanations > Often on other sites, a user would have his or her comment downvoted without explanation and then edit their comment to ask why they were downvoted. On this site, voters must choose a reason before downvoting comments and those votes are tallied and shown to the original commenter. > For submitted stories, downvoting is done through flagging (also requiring a valid reason) and these flag summaries are shown to all users. I like the limited cardinality of Lobsters downvote options because it reminds me of acceptable reasons of downvoting, because “I disagree but don’t want to write a comment” isn’t a choice.