I think that provocative articles and comments often inspire really good retorts/comments as opposed to more well-balanced articles, at least sometimes. Yeah,

I think that provocative articles and comments often inspire really good retorts/comments as opposed to more well-balanced articles, at least sometimes. Yeah, the blatant inflammatory baiting rhetoric sucks and I am happy to downvote those comments, no matter what their alignment is. I hope that's enough to discourage it. I do see flare-ups of partisan hackery from time to time, but I think batting it back down with comment voting and the occasional polite reminder works well. >The article disappeared fairly quickly anyway So it's not much of a problem then. >I can't downvote stories yet (I've only ~1200 karma) If there is an amount of karma that allows you to downvote sumbissions, it's more than 6743. I can flag them, is that what you mean?