Personally, I think the "karma" and up/down voting of comments is a cool feature but they need to be taken with a grain of salt. It's fun to see a submission g

Personally, I think the "karma" and up/down voting of comments is a cool feature but they need to be taken with a grain of salt. It's fun to see a submission get upvoted and get karma points and disappointing to see one get buried, and frustrating to see a post get buried and than another covering the same topic go big, but taken in perspective to what's truly important the points are trivial. The main reason I visit HN most days, and generally several times a day, is to find something interesting and most days I do, and some of what I find and learn here is important. I never come here looking for stuff to down vote. That's kind of hard to even imagine because you'd almost have to pass over the interesting and important to do that. Be interesting to be able to see how many down votes a user has made. That could make one a bit less trigger happy.