I think downmod button is necessary but in the right hands, People who care about the good content. I would say, people with more karma points can have have the

I think downmod button is necessary but in the right hands, People who care about the good content. I would say, people with more karma points can have have the downmod rights. This is not democracy per se since some users have more rights than other users but it is a free market. People who have worked more harder and earned more karma points tend to have more rights than early users on HN.