[Hinrik]

> Edit: oh wow, to -2 in less than 2 minutes.

> It's a point of information, not an endorsement.

Please follow the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), specifically: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "

[mhh__]

I sometimes wonder whether a better solution would be to require a comment with a downvote i.e. there was a heated thread about Assange yesterday, in which my karma was oscillating from -25 to +5 around the amount prior to making the comments, but only one proper counterargument.