I actually think that the newcomments page is part of the problem. My theory is that people reading newcomments tend to downvote something that seems even a li

I actually think that the newcomments page is part of the problem. My theory is that people reading newcomments tend to downvote something that seems even a little bit controversial, without seeing the context in which it was made. I notice that after a few hours the scores seem to settle into something more fair. A lot of people will fix unfair 0s and -1s.