I find it quite ironic that you&#x27;re being downvoted for this.<p>The amount of discussions about voting even on HN makes it quite clear that even here we are engaging in social-engineering through votes. We see all over the place how people are starting comments with &quot;I know I&#x27;ll be downvoted for this, but...&quot;. Implicit in that is the admission that it takes an extra temptation or push to post something we know will face social sanctions.<p>Of <i>course</i> this scoring mechanism is worse than getting downvoted on HN or Reddit, but that does not make the comparison irrelevant.