It's a good feedback system. Just because I and you don't get it, doesn't mean someone was indifferent to the post. It's meant to filter out discussions that ar

It's a good feedback system. Just because I and you don't get it, doesn't mean someone was indifferent to the post. It's meant to filter out discussions that are uninteresting. Just got to deal with if one isn't that interesting. Adding posts on top of that would be counterproductive. I often raise somewhat controversial opinion and topics. Very rarely do I see clusters of downvotes, and I'm not surprised people are against my own ideas. Otherwise they would be common! It also mirrors society outside academia. It happens that later upvotes changes the score significantly. Such is it with all change. Without some skin in the game, it's all spam and trolling otherwise. What might look strange in a mod system, might under analysis turn out to be well designed. For all forums there is an adaption phase, before getting what people expect from posts.