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[–]venecia 33 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 0 fun34 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same. Removal of downvoting also removed the possibility of downvote/upvoting brigade from the TRAs. They would swamp reddit and downvote sane, thoughtful comments and upvote hateful, inflammatory comments. It served their purposes nicely. One side of that equation is balanced now as long as we upvote thoughtful content.

[–]jkfinn 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. I wrote reddit suggesting a -10 maximum for downvoting, which wd relieve commenters from having to check their rear view mirror after every challenging or unpopular comment, but (as expected) no response. And yes, many of my most downvoted posts (under -50) were rather long and relatively complex.