> Is it okay to downvote without explaining why? Yes. The Russians (ie IRA) on here for instance want to promote disinformation and conflict. The best way to

> Is it okay to downvote without explaining why? Yes. The Russians (ie IRA) on here for instance want to promote disinformation and conflict. The best way to do this is would be up voting and down voting. Once you get into comments it is quite time intensive. But it is also easier to get caught, the community can't self regulate voting, it's invisible. Different topic, I think a reason for down-voting with a 100 drop down options including options not allowed/encouraged(ie they are a Republican, I disliked another one of their comments) would be a very interesting experiment. It might kill HN, so HN won't do this experiment since they have a working site. But there does need to be another evolution done by someone. [edit] Probably wouldn't help, but HN should have a private "downvoted comments" to complement the private "upvoted comments" link in the admin panel so people can see their behaviour.