When someone's wrong it's not always in the content of their comment. Often they're missing context, don't have the whole picture and have made an excellent com

When someone's wrong it's not always in the content of their comment. Often they're missing context, don't have the whole picture and have made an excellent comment for the wrong point. It takes a lot of time to turn that kind of comment train around. The language and culture barrier on the internet does not help. Downvotes are a blunt tool, they are the best we have for limiting exponential growth where otherwise one must justify more and more logic to counter a runaway train.