I was thinking of a possible way to improve the downvote issue. Make users either comment or upvote an existing child comment to downvote. I'm sure you'll get

I was thinking of a possible way to improve the downvote issue. Make users either comment or upvote an existing child comment to downvote. I'm sure you'll get tons of "u suk" comments but there's just as many who won't even bother since they need to do two things now.