I agree, but fwiw pg (the HN founder) encouraged downvoting for disagreement. I railed against it to, but as pg endorses it I think we're stuck with it. The b

I agree, but fwiw pg (the HN founder) encouraged downvoting for disagreement. I railed against it to, but as pg endorses it I think we're stuck with it. The best sort of voting I've seen is multi-dimensional Slashdot-style voting where users can individually model there own comment visibility metrics.