> you have to state a reason for downvoting. Yep, you do. I find the quality of discussions there to be worlds above HN. Downvote brigades are basically nonex

> you have to state a reason for downvoting. Yep, you do. I find the quality of discussions there to be worlds above HN. Downvote brigades are basically nonexistent. I don't know if it's because you have to go through an extra step to downvote someone and commentors don't want to be publicly labeled as 'troll' or 'spam', but they are doing seems to be working.