How could 'not hating Perl' be an unpopular opinion ;)<p>Anyway, I fully agree that having your comments auto-killed just for saying what you think - no matter how unpopular - should never happen.<p>Is it possible that there is some kind of low threshold for your karma after which all your comments get killed?<p>Because I'm fairly sure that I have said some pretty unpopular stuff here and afaik I am not dead.<p>Maybe it's not too smart to start antagonizing people right off the bat, before you have sufficient 'karma cushion' to survive a drive-by downmod or two.<p>How about only displaying the downmod button <i>after</i> you've answered someone?