HN should get rid of the downvote button, that would do infinitely more for karma quality than a million stupid formula ideas. Since we can't see the actual sco

HN should get rid of the downvote button, that would do infinitely more for karma quality than a million stupid formula ideas. Since we can't see the actual score of individual posts anymore there is no way to determine if they are overrated anyway. On top of that, it's semantically difficult for me to grok what the downvote button is supposed to be used for. Should I downvote posts simply because I don't agree with them? Should I downvote garbage instead of flagging it? If pg got rid of that button, the meaning of karma would be cleared up, both for posts as well as for users. Upvote comments you think are high quality (or because you agree with them), flag things that are not supposed to be here, and simply ignore all the rest. It already works like that for stories, let's just go one step further and treat posts the same way.