[S4M]

Well, I downvoted him after reading your comment, so I thought I might as well explain it in your response.

Now, jacquesm's reply is making me regret my downvote.

Also, I agree with what you think about downvotes. I think HN should have a detector of potentially stupid comments (e.g "u re a fag") that could be downvoted without giving a reason, and the rest (comments similar to skidoo's comment) could be downvoted only after giving an explanation.

[PeterWhittaker]

You know what's ironic? I gained downvote privileges today.

Partly as a result of this discussion.

MOi ha ha ha... uh oh.

;-P

(A quick search reveals no FF extensions to disable downvoting. I guess I could put rotate180 in user.js....)