I don't have a solution but my thinking at the moment is either (a) get rid of the downvote or (b) keep it to rank order of comments but don't show it to users

I don't have a solution but my thinking at the moment is either (a) get rid of the downvote or (b) keep it to rank order of comments but don't show it to users including the commentor. That also means not showing it in aggregate. I wrote an extension to hide points for myself https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-points-exorcism/dpijcanaophgcblkpililldhmgomkjlo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-points-exorcism...