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I will confess to a certain degree of, pun unintended, annoyance with some of his previous comments. However, it seems to me that downvoting the comment in question (the second one, about downvotes) is unfair. Given that a downvote conveys very little information in itself, requesting additional feedback on the reason for a downvote ought to be perfectly acceptable as a method of interpreting the feedback.
I think the voting system would benefit from one or more of a few modifications:
Limiting downvotes per user, to restrict grudge downvotes
Allowing downvotes only on comments you've replied to (no downvote without an reason, in other words)
Enforce a social standard that requesting clarification on downvotes is acceptable
Replace voting with a sliding scale of quality instead of up/down, and for every user who has previously voted on a comment that views a thread, treat that as a vote for 50%/average/&c.
I have voiced my disagreement with this elsewhere, but I must reiterate that I am not in favor of restricting downvotes to comments you've replied to. Replying to a troll, for instance, is the wrong thing to do.
Also, that unnecessarily makes upvoting easier than downvoting. I happily downvote any comment that I think doesn't add anything to the discussion at hand, and it already takes up too much of my time.
If limiting downvotes sounds reasonable, upvotes should be limited accordingly. And the automatic upvote to one's own comments should be included under that limit. Though I'm altogether against such limits.
Good point. I retract that suggestion.
The automatic upvote to one's own comments is slated to be removed, with the stated intent to normalize comment scores to a baseline of 0. There's an issue entered in LW's Google Code issue tracker for this already.