[mchahn]

Ok, I"m facing an armageddon of downvotes but why the heck was this downvoted? He made a point, that while arguable, is a valid comment. Maybe the discussion of downvoting is bringing more downvotes.

Jeeez.

Edit: My upvote brought him back to zero, for now.

[hnmcs]

I see things more in terms of signal/noise considerations.

Rational minds can disagree, and intelligence can't understand much-greater-intelligence (so lessers might downvote much-greaters for that reason, besides the first-mentioned reason), but you don't have to worry about armageddons of downvotes. Or the balance of votes.

Just upvote what you consider "signal", and downvote the worst kinds of noise.

Thus you, my parent comment, are barely voted on at all, while the one by jewbacca rises to the top all day, no matter the weather.

[Retra]

It may be because this whole discussion is off-topic and not very productive.

[DonHopkins]

Seems on-topic to me. You can't call Godwin's Law when the discussion is really about Hitler himself, and you can't claim that discussing how voting works is off-topic when the discussion is about how the voting button works.