I feel the same way. I find that my comments result in three outcomes- nothing significant, significant uproots or significant down votes. The ones with signi

I feel the same way. I find that my comments result in three outcomes- nothing significant, significant uproots or significant down votes. The ones with significant down votes are not any different in quality than the ones with significant uproots... however they are the ones that are less correlated with what I'd call the "HN ideological positions". I really don't like that heavily downvoted comments are invisible, it's literally silencing the opposition in a way. Upvotes only lets people surface the stuff they think is really good. The upvote action is inspired by strong agreement or liking of a comment, or respect. Down vote is almost always a negative emotion.