> First of all, have an upvote, which is both the agree and disagree button, as long as a person contributes to the conversation. It's a shame that HN makes n

> First of all, have an upvote, which is both the agree and disagree button, as long as a person contributes to the conversation. It's a shame that HN makes no difference between "what you're writing has no place here" and "I disagree with you" I remember discussing with people who were experimenting with this kind of mechanism for comments on newspaper websites, but I believe that this hasn't had much success.