This has come up before. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997697 (which was flagged, unfortunately, desp

This has come up before. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23997697 (which was flagged, unfortunately, despite generally quality comments and participation by @dang) Some people cited "low value" comments as being a good reason for downvoting them. Others said "comments I don't like/disagree with." A few said they never downvote other comments ("I never downvote anything anywhere ever. I don't understand how can downvoting make any constructive sense.")