[bena]

It's bad on the small scale of say like a post, but I think it works on the larger scale of the community at large.

If you make a post and it goes into negatives not because you're being an ass, but because it just goes against the groupthink, whatever. Your overall karma will go down a touch. There comes a point where no one post is going to devastate your overall standing.

But if every post you make gets downvoted, isn't that indicative of a larger problem?

But that's looking at the problem solely from a "user" perspective.

It's still bad from a content perspective because it means good, relevant content that goes against the groupthink gets buried.