[ajross]

Yet it wasn't like this in the past. And while I won't make the same accusations I do think it would be good for you guys to look at the culture that gets encouraged here. There is a viciousness to the voting here and an intolerance of opinion that just doesn't match the seemingly sophisticated comments.

[dang]

You seem to be talking about voting patterns while I'm talking about cognitive biases leading to bogus generalizations. Those seem like two distinct "it"s.

As for voting patterns, I'm not sure I agree. For example, it's not true that downvotes used to be reserved for something factually incorrect. The voting mechanisms are subject to the same psychology as they always were.

Your comments often argue in edgy ways that are not exactly in keeping with the spirit of this site. From my perspective that's more likely why they're getting downvotes. I took a quick look and your comments that I saw which were upvoted don't seem to have this quality. Usually, when people complain about downvotes, there's something in their comments that they're not aware of, but which is apparent to readers. Of course there are also downvotes simply because of disagreement, but all comments get those, and they usually get fixed by corrective upvotes if there's nothing else in the comment that has a downvoteable quality.