There are most certainly folks that come here with the sole intent to down vote what they find here. My suggestion is to keep that in mind. And it doesn't feel

There are most certainly folks that come here with the sole intent to down vote what they find here. My suggestion is to keep that in mind. And it doesn't feel like a leap to surmise that a small percent of users here may account for a large percent of downvotes here and anonymity probably encourages those who do that. On the other hand, that anonymity also prevents retaliation wars which would probably get out of hand fast here otherwise. One way to address that issue could be to limit the number of downvotes one gets to use here. For example you might be allotted 10 downvotes a month and that's all. My hunch is if that were implemented we see a huge drop in downvotes here. In my case I don't think I've hit that limit many times, if any.