Is there anyway to decrease the opacity? Knowing when a tug of war is happening vs when a story is just not important&#x2F;not popular is compelling&#x2F;valuable&#x2F;meaningful.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-value-of-downvoting-or-how-hacker-news-gets-it-wrong&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;2009&#x2F;03&#x2F;the-value-of-downvoti...</a><p>I&#x27;m not just a moralist(though I think it&#x27;s obvious there are moral points here) I&#x27;m building an HN clone.