The voting culture here is toxic, and totally benign posts frequently get voted down for no good reason, and without comment. I see posts complaining about down

The voting culture here is toxic, and totally benign posts frequently get voted down for no good reason, and without comment. I see posts complaining about downvotes now in every other thread on HN, and I still haven't seen a mod comment about it. It's getting to be real pain in the ass, and something does need to be done. I'd be in favor of making votes public at this point, the problem has gotten so bad. The fact that early downvotes are usually canceled out, eventually, does not render the problem moot. It merely makes it a bit easier to live with. I'm pretty sure there are at least a few bots that are automatically downvoting posts with certain keywords as well, and the accounts for those bots need to be identified and banned.