[pg]

This comment is, unfortunately, an illustration of how sites go downhill. It has 19 downvotes, including mine. So how does it have so many points? Because it has twice as many upvotes.

When badness arrives in online communities, it arrives first in forms that make people invite it right in.

[brlewis]

It's also an illustration of what stops them from going downhill. Replies like neilk's do more to tone down the rhetoric than any voting button could do.

[pshapiro]

Is there currently a way on HN to see upvotes alongside downvotes? If not, it seems like a worthy enhancement to me.