It was clearly an idea worth discussing judging by the follow up comments, downvoting on HN is for unproductive comments not disagreement. To the parent commen

It was clearly an idea worth discussing judging by the follow up comments, downvoting on HN is for unproductive comments not disagreement. To the parent comments point, I have noticed more downvotes on valid but disagreeable comments recently, I think there might be some weight to it anecdotally.