The downvoting...
... is beyond aggravating. I sent an email last week to the staff about it, prompted by this thread. I know that you are a frequent poster and thick skinned and it won't affect you, but what about the first time poster? Will they want to come back and offer up their well intentioned opinions again if some random, anonymous strangers can bash what took them 15 minutes to think and type with a single mouse click? While there were lots of things in the last TR redesign that I didn't care for, the downvotes are the only thing I actively dislike and feel that they are hurting the site immensely. It creates an extraordinarily negative atmosphere. At least with nasty comments, if they were well reasoned I could take it as harshly worded criticism and if they weren't it could be seen as a bad attitude, and if it cross a line it was a TOS violation. But with the downvotes, who knows? I've seen on some stuff, it seems like any opinion that disagrees with the author, regardless of how well argued, gets negged, I'm convinced that it's just the author doing it. How juvenile is that? The whole thing is just bothersome.
J.Ja
