I&#x27;m ok with downvote for stories but it seems the system works pretty good without it: good posts get somehow noticed in &quot;new&quot; and appear in the &quot;top&quot;, the inappropriate ones are ignored or flagged.<p>As for comments I would remove the feature entirely:
I have never felt the need to downvote a comment even when I strongly disagreed with it and when I think something is stupid I just ignore it: there is no need to tell everyone else it&#x27;s stupid. Also it really annoys me when I see someone&#x27;s opinion grayed out and crashed by users that sometimes don&#x27;t even bother to comment on why they downvoted.