HN has built-in community sculpting. That comment would be downvoted and possibly even deleted by HN mods. How about a requirement to post support for the comm

HN has built-in community sculpting. That comment would be downvoted and possibly even deleted by HN mods. How about a requirement to post support for the comment. I.e., reasoning behind the statement with links to sources, kind of like Wikipedia. We do it as a convention on HN, but maybe making it a requirement is appropriate for polarized topics: "My opinion is xyz because abc and you can clearly see that abc is proven by this quote: 'my quote from the below linked article' From: www.thebelowlink.com/intelligentreasoning.html