From the Guidelines[0]: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. And dang himself has backed up

From the Guidelines[0]: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. And dang himself has backed up the "downvote button as a disagree button" idea, so if you really want to make that argument, I think you'll find the site admins against the idea (frustrating as it is.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html