This thread is now disappearing forever but anyway for posterity, ignoring the title and the pretty inaccurate article: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/th

This thread is now disappearing forever but anyway for posterity, ignoring the title and the pretty inaccurate article: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/the-value-of-downvotin... the discussion in the comments is very interesting.