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When my comment gets downvoted, it means that there is the tantalizing possibility of me excising a false belief from my mind.
A downvote doesn't increase the possibility of your losing a false belief. It just means that someone, somewhere, decided to hit one button over another.
You have no idea who voted you down, and as we don't have clear standards as a group, you can't even make a stab in the dark as to why some individuals disapproved. It's a popularity measure, nothing more.
(shrug)
My own experience is that positive and negative scores have little if any relation to the quality of a comment.
Also, total signal strength matters. The few massively-negative comments I've seen I agree are bad, but the ones with only a few negatives often don't strike me as deserving their scores.
As most comments don't receive any feedback, positive or negative, having a score of -1 only means that one person cared enough to make the comment and two cared enough to vote it down, for whatever reason.
It would be nice to be able to see total number of positive and negative votes, to see which comments are the most contentious, but that's not currently a feature.
There are too many different blogging/commenting systems as it is. For someone interested in finding useful or interesting content rather than in "communing", it is seriously annoying to keep track of how they work.
I don't have anything against innovation - provided it's more useful than the inconsistency it introduces. Tools, including software, are used for other ends, they are not ends in themselves except for a few people who specialize in them, or are otherwise particularly interested in them. As I put it earlier, I am interested in finding interesting or useful content, not in learning to manage a dozen different software systems.
Standardize somewhat on the blogging/commenting systems. Reducing the number of different systems will lessen the complexity a lot more than adding features to one or another would increase it. Reduce the number of systems by making it easier for current sites to transfer to another system. Reduce forking of projects by making it easy to patch systems to a consistent standard.