[mikece]

Did I get voted down because I actually agreed with keeping PHP rather than changing languages? I don't care about the karma points, just curious if someone thought I was attacking PHP because they didn't read the whole comment.

[mjburgess]

it would be nice if HN had a random "explain your vote" mode where voters had to choose from, eg., agree, helpful, insightful, etc. vs. disagree, unhelpful, provocative

[mikece]

I will admit that I've made trolling comments from time to time which get well-deserved vote-downs, but there are certainly times where I would like to know what the point of disagreement is because if I'm missing a point of view from which I could learn I would like to know!

[solardev]

If only there was some other famous tech forum with a descriptive voting system that we could learn from...

(https://slashdot.org/faq/mod-metamod.shtml)